Job 7:1

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

¹ “Is not man forced to labor on earth,
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?
² “As a slave who pants for the shade,
And as a hired man who eagerly waits for his wages,

Appointed Time

Forced Labor

On Earth

Time of Trouble

Job

Job 14:5-6

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.

Psalm 39:4

“Lord, make me to know my end
And what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how transient I am.

Leviticus 25:50

He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him.

Deuteronomy 15:18

“It shall not seem hard to you when you set him free, for he has given you six years with double the service of a hired man; so the Lord your God will bless you in whatever you do.

Job 5:7

For man is born for trouble,
As sparks fly upward.

Job 14:13-14

“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You,
That You would set a limit for me and remember me!

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

Isaiah 21:16

For thus the Lord said to me, “In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate;

Isaiah 38:5

“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 40:2

“Speak kindly to Jerusalem;
And call out to her, that her warfare has ended,
That her iniquity has been removed,
That she has received of the Lord’s hand
Double for all her sins.”

Matthew 20:1-15

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

John 11:9-10

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.