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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• 5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
 14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change 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• 5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
 13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
 14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. (Job 14:5,13‑14)
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Psa. 39:4• 4Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. (Psa. 39:4)
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Isa. 38:5• 5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto 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 man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
 10But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. (John 11:9‑10)
an appointed time.
or, a warfare.
Eccl. 8:8• 8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in 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• 6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an 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 unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. (Lev. 25:50)
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Deut. 15:18• 18It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall 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 an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: (Isa. 21:16)
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Matt. 20:1‑15• 1For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.
 2And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
 3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
 4And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
 5Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
 6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
 7They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
 8So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
 9And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
 10But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
 11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
 12Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
 13But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
 14Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
 15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? 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.