As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.

He shall be with him year by year as a hired servant, and he shall not rule with harshness over him before your eyes.

It shall not be difficult in your eyes to let him go free from you; for he has served you six years for double the wages of a hired servant. And Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you do.

Is there not warfare for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?

Like a servant who pants for the shade, and like a hired man who waits eagerly for his wages,

Look away from him that he may rest, so like a hired man he may be satisfied with his day.

But now Jehovah has spoken, saying, Within three years, like the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be disgraced with all that great multitude; and the little remnant shall be few, not mighty.

For Jehovah has said to me, Within a year, according to the year of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;