“ Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

“人在世上岂无争战吗？他的日子不像雇工人的日子吗？

“人在世上岂无劳役呢？他的日子不像雇工的日子吗？

“人在世上岂无劳役呢？他的日子不像雇工的日子吗？

“人生在世岂不像服劳役吗？他有生之年岂不像个雇工吗？

“人在世上怎能没有劳役呢？他的日子不像雇工的日子吗？

人在世上豈無爭戰嗎？他的日子不像雇工人的日子嗎？

「人在世上豈無勞役呢？他的日子不像雇工的日子嗎？

「人在世上豈無勞役呢？他的日子不像雇工的日子嗎？

「人生在世豈不像服勞役嗎？他有生之年豈不像個雇工嗎？

“人在世上怎能沒有勞役呢？他的日子不像雇工的日子嗎？

『人在世上哪裏沒有勞役呢？他的日子不像雇工人的日子麼？

人在於世、無戰爭乎、其日不猶傭人之日乎、

人生苦境終其年、猶工勞瘁畢其生。

人生於世、如在戰場、如傭工度日、

“ Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?

Job continued,“ Don’t all human beings have to work hard on this earth? Aren’t their days like the days of hired workers?

“ Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

“ Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand,

Isn’t each person consigned to forced labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired worker?

“ Is a person not forced to labor on earth, And are his days not like the days of a hired worker?

“ Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Isn’t mankind consigned to forced labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

[ Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth?[ are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?

“ Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

“ O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

“ O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

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

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.

Jesus replied,“ Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

“ For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard.When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.He said to them,‘ You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, he did the same thing.And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them,‘ Why are you standing here all day without work?’They said to him,‘ Because no one hired us.’ He said to them,‘ You go and work in the vineyard too.’When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager,‘ Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’When those hired about five o’clock came, each received a full day’s pay.And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.When they received it, they began to complain against the landowner,saying,‘ These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’And the landowner replied to one of them,‘ Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage?Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you.Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

For this is what the sovereign master has told me:“ Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

“ Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her that her time of warfare is over, that her punishment is completed. For the LORD has made her pay double for all her sins.”