KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 7:2–3
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Job 7:2
2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
2As a seruant †earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his worke:
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Job 7:3
3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
3So am I made to possesse moneths of vanitie, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 7:2
One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Seriously, eagerly, sincerely, or with intense effort.
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Shade from light; a dark outline; or a figure of protection, transience, or a coming reality, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A person who works for wages; one whose service is governed chiefly by pay.
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To direct the eyes or attention; to behold, observe, expect, or take heed.
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Recompense, or equivalent return for good done, for kindness, for services and the like.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Labor, activity, deed, operation, or a result produced; as a verb, to labor, act, make, produce, or bring about.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 7:3
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
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To have, hold, occupy, obtain, or take as one's own.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Emptiness, worthlessness, transience, futile desire, or excessive self-regard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Causing fatigue, burden, or prolonged tiredness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Fixed; set; established; decreed; ordained; constituted; allotted; Furnished; equipped with things necessary.
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study13¶ Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
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Open the full verse study15At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
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Open the full verse study4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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Open the full verse study5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
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Open the full verse study4Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
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Open the full verse study131I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
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Open the full verse study6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
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Open the full verse study14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Open the full verse study7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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Open the full verse study2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
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Open the full verse study5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
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