Job 7:1

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Job 7:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

2 Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.

3 So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

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Job 14:5

Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

Job 14:13

If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

Job 14:14

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

Psalms 39:4

“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

Isaiah 38:5

“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

John 11:9

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

John 11:10

But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”

Ecclesiastes 8:8

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Job 14:6

look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

Leviticus 25:50

He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.

Deuteronomy 15:18

Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

Isaiah 21:16

For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

Matthew 20:1

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

Matthew 20:2

He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:3

About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

Matthew 20:4

‘You also go into my vineyard,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you whatever is right.’

Matthew 20:5

So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.

Matthew 20:6

About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.

Matthew 20:7

‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’

Matthew 20:8

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’

Matthew 20:9

The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.

Matthew 20:10

So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.

Matthew 20:11

On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.

Matthew 20:12

‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’

Matthew 20:13

But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?

Matthew 20:14

Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.

Matthew 20:15

Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’