English Standard Version
Job 7:1
1"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
Job 7:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
- New International Version (NIV)“Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand,
Context of Job 7:1
"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? 2Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, 3so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
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הֲלֹא־צָבָ֣א לֶאֱנ֣וֹשׁ עֲלֵי אָ֑רֶץ וְכִימֵ֖י שָׂכִ֣יר יָמָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 7:1
- Job 14:5Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
- Psalms 39:4"O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!
- Isaiah 38:5"Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
- John 11:9Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
- Job 14:6look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
- Leviticus 25:50He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.
- Deuteronomy 15:18It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired worker he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.
- Isaiah 21:16For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
- Matthew 20:1"For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Commentaries on Job 7:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Is there not an appointed time to man - The Hebrew, with its literal rendering, is as follows: ארץ עלי לאנוש צבא הלא halo tsaba leenosh aley arets, "Is there not a warfare to miserable man upon the earth?" And thus most of the versions have understood the words. The Septuagint: ̔ ; "Is not the life of man a place of trial upon earth?" The Vulgate: Militia est vita hominis super terram, "The life of man is a warfare upon earth?" The Chaldee is the same…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? - Margin, or, warfare. The word used here צבא tsâbâ' means properly a host, an army, see the notes, Isaiah 1:9; then it means warfare, or the hard service of a soldier; notes, Isaiah 40:2. Here it means that man on the earth was enlisted, so to speak, for a certain time. He had a certain and definite hard service to perform, and which he must continue to discharge until he was relieved by death. It was a…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Job's troubles. (1-6) Job expostulates with God. (7-16) He begs release. (17-21) Verses 1-6 Job here excuses what he could not justify, his desire of death. Observe man's present place: he is upon earth. He is yet on earth, not in hell. Is there not a time appointed for his abode here? yes, certainly, and the appointment is made by Him who made us and sent us here. During that, man's life is a warfare, and as day-labourers, who have the work of the day to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1Human life has been difficult since the effects of the first human sin (Genesis 3:17; 5:29; Ecclesiastes 1:2, 13–14; 2:11, 17; Romans 8:20–22).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-211. appointed time--better, "a warfare," hard conflict with evil (so in Is 40:2; Da 10:1). Translate it "appointed time" (Job 14:14). Job reverts to the sad picture of man, however great, which he had drawn (Job 3:14), and details in this chapter the miseries which his friends will see, if, according to his request (Job 6:28), they will look on him. Even the Christian soldier, "warring a good warfare," rejoices when it is completed (1Ti 1:18; 2Ti 2:3; 4:7…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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