Verse 1

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:5-6 : 5 If determined are his days, The number of his months `are' with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over; 6 Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.
  • Ps 39:4 : 4 `Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it `is',' I know how frail I `am'.
  • Job 14:13-14 : 13 O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me. 14 If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.
  • Lev 25:50 : 50 `And he hath reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him till the year of jubilee, and the money of his sale hath been by the number of years; as the days of an hireling it is with him.
  • Deut 15:18 : 18 `It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.
  • Job 5:7 : 7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.
  • Isa 21:16 : 16 For thus said the Lord unto me: `Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.
  • Isa 38:5 : 5 Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, `I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,
  • Isa 40:2 : 2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her warfare hath been completed, That accepted hath been her punishment, That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins.
  • Matt 20:1-9 : 1 `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard, 2 and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 `And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle, 4 and to these he said, Go ye -- also ye -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you; 5 and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner. 6 And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle? 7 they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye -- ye also -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive. 8 `And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first. 9 And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary. 10 `And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary, 11 and having received `it', they were murmuring against the householder, saying, 12 that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day -- and the heat. 13 `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me? 14 take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee; 15 is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see; 10 and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'