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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,{HR}The number of his months with thee,{HR}Thou hast set his bound which he shall not pass.
 14If a man die, shall he live?{HR}All the days of my warfare would I wait{HR}Till my exchange 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,{HR}The number of his months with thee,{HR}Thou hast set his bound which he shall not pass.
 13O that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol,{HR}Hide me till the turning of thine anger,{HR}Appoint me a set time, and then remember me!
 14If a man die, shall he live?{HR}All the days of my warfare would I wait{HR}Till my exchange should come. (Job 14:5,13‑14)
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Psa. 39:4• 4Make me to know, O Jehovah, my end,{HR}And the measure of my days, what it [is];{HR}Let me 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 of the day?
 10If one walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because he seeth the light of this world; but if one walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him. (John 11:9‑10)
an appointed time.
or, a warfare.
Eccl. 8:8• 8There is no man that hath power over the day of death;{HR}And there is no discharge in that war:{HR}Neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it. (Eccl. 8:8)
like the days.
Job 14:6• 6Look away from him that he may rest,{HR}That he may enjoy 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 sold himself 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 hireling, 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 which went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard;
 2and when he had agreed with the labourers for a denary the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
 3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;
 4and to them he said, 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 the ninth hour, and did likewise.
 6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he 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.
 8And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto the steward, Call the labourers, and pay 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 denary.
 10And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received every man a denary.
 11And when they received it, they murmured against the householder,
 12saying, These last have spent one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.
 13But he answered and said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a denary?
 14Take up that [which is] thine, and go thy way; it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee.
 15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Hath not man a warfare on earth,{HR}And are not his days as the days of a hireling?