Job 7:2 — King James Version← Study notes
“As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:”
Job 7:2 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 7:26 words
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Church Fathers on Job 7:2
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the end of his work, so am I made to possess months of vanity, and I have numbered me wearisome nights. Since for ‘a servant to desire the shadow,’ is after the heat of trial and the sweat of labour to seek the cool of eternal repose. Which shadow that servant desired, who said, My soul thirsteth for God, the living God; when shall I come and appear before God? And again, Woe is me that I sojourn in…
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