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Job 7:2
Job 7:2 is verse 2 of Job chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
King James Version
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
World English Bible
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
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Job 7:1–4 · 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.
4 When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 119:131I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.
Psalms 143:6I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
Jeremiah 6:4‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.
Leviticus 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
Deuteronomy 24:15You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
James 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.