Job 7:1
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 7:1 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 7:1 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? an appointed...: o..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 7:1 — KJV
“Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? an appointed...: or, a warfare”
— Job 7:1 (KJV)
Job 7:1 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 7:1
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”
Shares key themes with Job 7:1: earth, days, also
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. While...: Heb. As yet all the days of the earth”
Shares key themes with Job 7:1: time, earth, days
“For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.”
Shares key themes with Job 7:1: time, earth, like
“Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)”
Shares key themes with Job 7:1: appointed, time, days
“For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?”
Shares key themes with Job 7:1: earth, days, like
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