“Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?”
Job asserts that a man has a hard service on earth, suggesting that human existence itself is characterized by struggle and labor rather than by ease. The assertion that life is fundamentally difficult establishes a worldview that does not expect ease or comfort. The opening of this chapter on complaint reveals that Job's fundamental despair extends to the nature of existence itself.
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