Job’s Life Seems Futile

[a]Is a person not (A)forced to labor on earth,
And are his days not like the days of (B)a hired worker?

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  1. Job 7:1 Lit Has not man compulsory labor

“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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(A)Look away from him so that he may [a]rest,
Until he [b]fulfills his day like a hired worker.

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  1. Job 14:6 Lit cease
  2. Job 14:6 Lit makes acceptable

So look away from him and let him alone,(A)
    till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.(B)

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Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

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16 For this is what the Lord said to me: “In a (A)year, as [a]a hired worker would count it, all the splendor of (B)Kedar will come to an end;

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  1. Isaiah 21:16 Lit the years of a hired

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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