New Living Translation
Job 7:1
1“Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that 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?
- 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
“Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand, 2like a worker who longs for the shade, like a servant waiting to be paid. 3I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
Read all of Job 7Job 7:1 word by word
הֲלֹא־צָבָ֣א לֶאֱנ֣וֹשׁ עֲלֵי אָ֑רֶץ וְכִימֵ֖י שָׂכִ֣יר יָמָֽיו׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 7:1
- Job 14:5You have decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer.
- Psalms 39:4“Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered— how fleeting my life is.
- Isaiah 38:5“Go back to Hezekiah and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add fifteen years to your life,
- John 11:9Jesus replied, “There are twelve hours of daylight every day. During the day people can walk safely. They can see because they have the light of this world.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8None of us can hold back our spirit from departing. None of us has the power to prevent the day of our death. There is no escaping that obligation, that dark battle. And in the face of death, wickedness will certainly not rescue the wicked.
- Job 14:6So leave us alone and let us rest! We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.
- Leviticus 25:50They will negotiate the price of their freedom with the person who bought them. The price will be based on the number of years from the time they were sold until the next Year of Jubilee—whatever it would cost to hire a worker for that period of time.
- Deuteronomy 15:18“You must not consider it a hardship when you release your servants. Remember that for six years they have given you services worth double the wages of hired workers, and the Lord your God will bless you in all you do.
- Isaiah 21:16The Lord said to me, “Within a year, counting each day, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
- Matthew 20:1“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one 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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