1 Is there not a time of service to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Job 7:1 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz
Leviticus 25:50
50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.
Deuteronomy 15:18
18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling hath he served thee six years; and the LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.
Job 5:7
7 But man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 14:5-6
Job 14:13-14
Psalms 39:4
4 (39:5) 'LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; let me know how short-lived I am.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
8 There is no man that hath power over the wind to retain the wind; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
Isaiah 21:16
16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me: 'Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail;
Isaiah 38:5
5 'Go, and say to Hezekiah: Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
Isaiah 40:2
2 Bid Jerusalem take heart, and proclaim unto her, that her time of service is accomplished, that her guilt is paid off; that she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Matthew 20:1-15
1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.
2 And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle,
4 and to them he said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you.
5 And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.
6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right shall ye receive.
8 And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a shilling.
10 And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they likewise received every man a shilling.
11 And when they received it, they murmured against the householder,
12 saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.
13 But he answered and said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst not thou agree with me for a shilling?
14 Take up that which is thine, and go thy way, it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee.
15 Or is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?