He shall be with you as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for you till the year of release;

He shall be with him from year to year; you shall not oppress him with labor before you.

It shall not seem hard to you when they are sent out free from you, because [your servant] has served you six years according to the annual hire of a hireling; so the Lord your God shall bless you in all things whatsoever you may do.

Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? And his existence as that of a hireling by the day?

Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? Or as a hireling waiting for his pay?

Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, [though] as a hireling.

And now I say, in three years, of the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be dishonored [with] all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honored.

For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of a hireling, [and] the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail;