Job 7:1

“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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
KJV: Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
WEB: “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
ASV: Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
DARBY: Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
BLB: [“] Is there not hard service for man on earth? Are his days like the days of a hireling?

ÅB: Er ikke et menneskes liv på jorden en krigstjeneste, og hans dager som en dagarbeiders dager?
OTB: «Er ikke et menneske tvunget til å arbeide på jorden,
Og er ikke hans dager som dagene til en leiekar?
B1930: Er ikke et menneskes liv på jorden en krigstjeneste, og hans dager som en dagarbeiders dager?

Job 14:5–6
Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
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Psalms 39:4
“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
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Job 5:7
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
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Job 14:13–14
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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Matthew 20:1–15
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
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