Job 7:2
“As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:”
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Related Verses
“Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?”
“Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.”
“He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.”
“For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?”
“Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.”