“Do not mortals have hard service(A) on earth?(B)
    Are not their days like those of hired laborers?(C)

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Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

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Job: My Suffering Is Comfortless

Is there not (A)a time of hard service for man on earth?
Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

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Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,(A)
    or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,(B)

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As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

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Like a servant who [a]earnestly desires the shade,
And like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:2 Lit. pants for

13 Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”(A)

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13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

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13 (A)Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
Before I go away and (B)am no more.”

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14 But now the Lord says: “Within three years,(A) as a servant bound by contract(B) would count them,(C) Moab’s splendor and all her many people will be despised,(D) and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”(E)

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14 But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

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14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “Within three years, (A)as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

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16 This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract(A) would count it, all the splendor(B) of Kedar(C) will come to an end.

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16 For 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:

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16 For thus the Lord has said to me: “Within a year, (A)according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of (B)Kedar will fail;

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