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Job 7

Job 7:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Is there not γan appointedn time
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
to man
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
upon earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
? are not his days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
also like the days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of an hireling
sakiyr (Hebrew #7916)
a man at wages by the day or year
KJV usage: hired (man, servant), hireling.
Pronounce: saw-keer'
Origin: from 7936
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a warfare.
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Job 14:5,14• 5If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,
 14(If a man die, shall he live again?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come: (Job 14:5,14)

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Earth,
Hireling; Hired Servant

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-11:  Job excuses his desire of death.
12-21:  He complains of his own restlessness, and expostulates with God.
Is there.
Job 14:5,13‑14• 5If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,
 13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me,--
 14(If a man die, shall he live again?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come: (Job 14:5,13‑14)
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Psa. 39:4• 4Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am. (Psa. 39:4)
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Isa. 38:5• 5Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years. (Isa. 38:5)
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John 11:9‑10• 9Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;
 10but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. (John 11:9‑10)
an appointed time.
or, a warfare.
Eccl. 8:8• 8There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. (Eccl. 8:8)
like the days.
Job 14:6• 6Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day. (Job 14:6)
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Lev. 25:50• 50And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of the years, according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him. (Lev. 25:50)
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Deut. 15:18• 18Let it not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for double the worth of a hired servant hath he been to thee, in serving thee six years; and Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest. (Deut. 15:18)
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Isa. 21:16• 16For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Within a year, according to the years of a hired servant, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail; (Isa. 21:16)
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Matt. 20:1‑15• 1For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.
 2And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
 3And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle;
 4and to them he said, Go also ye into the vineyard, and whatsoever may be just I will give you. And they went their way.
 5Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise.
 6But about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
 7They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go also ye into the vineyard and whatsoever may be just ye shall receive.
 8But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning from the last even to the first.
 9And when they who came to work about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.
 10And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they received also themselves each a denarius.
 11And on receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,
 12saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.
 13But he answering said to one of them, My friend, I do not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius?
 14Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to this last even as to thee:
 15is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because *I* am good? (Matt. 20:1‑15)
• The brevity of life (chap. 7:1-11). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Hath not mand a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

JND Translation Notes

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Enosh, and so ver. 17, and ch. 9.2. see Ps. 8.4.