New English Translation
Job 7:1
1“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?
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?
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
- 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?
Context of Job 7:1
“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man? 2Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages, 3thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
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הֲלֹא־צָבָ֣א לֶאֱנ֣וֹשׁ עֲלֵי אָ֑רֶץ וְכִימֵ֖י שָׂכִ֣יר יָמָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 7:1
- Job 14:5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.
- Psalms 39:4“O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
- Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,
- John 11:9Jesus replied, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.
- Job 14:6Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
- Leviticus 25:50He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.
- Deuteronomy 15:18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
- Isaiah 21:16For this is what the sovereign master has told me: “Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.
- Matthew 20:1“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers 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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