Job 7:1
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
KJV
Militia est vita hominis super terram, et sicut dies mercenarii dies ejus.
Vulgate
πότερον οὐχὶ πειρατήριόν ἐστιν ὁ βίος ἀνθρώπου ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ὥσπερ μισθίου αὐθημερινοῦ ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ;
LXX
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
ASV
הֲ/לֹא צָבָ֣א לֶ/אֱנ֣וֹשׁ על עֲלֵי אָ֑רֶץ וְ/כִ/ימֵ֖י שָׂכִ֣יר יָמָֽי/ו
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ
'nvsh
noun · 41×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
צְבָא֖וֹת
tsb'vt
noun · 480×
שָׂכִ֖יר
shkyr
noun · 17×
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
City of God · 3 passages
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Cross-references
- Deut 12:1 — These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
- Deut 15:18 — It 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
- Eccl 3:2 — A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
- Eccl 8:8 — There 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
- Isa 40:2 — Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
- Job 5:7 — Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- Job 14:1 — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Job 14:5 — Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
- Job 14:5 — Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
- Job 14:6 — Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
- Job 14:13 — O 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!
- Job 14:14 — If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
- John 11:9 — Jesus 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.
- Lev 25:50 — And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time
- Matt 20:1 — For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
- Ps 39:4 — LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.