“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
Job is here excusing what he could not justify, even his inordinate desire of death. Why should he not wish for the termination of life, which would be the termination of his miseries? To enforce this reason he argues, I. From the general condition of man upon earth (Job 7:1): "He is of few days, and full of trouble.
Commenting on Job 7:1-6
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?.... There is a set time for his coming into the world, for his continuance in it, and for his going out of it; this is to man "on earth", with respect to his being and abode here, not in the other world or future state: not in heaven; there is no certain limited time for...
[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling? (a) Has not a hired servant some rest and ease? Then in this my continual torment I am worse than a hireling.