Komentarz do Hioba 7:1

Is not man on earth for a limited time This is what I said to you. ‘Agree and turn to me.’ because how can I be silent from crying our about my misfortune? Do you not know that the time a man has to live is limited?

Job now turns his attention to the notion put forward by Eliphaz that God makes righteous persons suffer presently for some minor sin they have committed so as to purge them, thereby saving them from more severe punishment in the future. Job cannot accept this. For man was created to achieve that perfection which was the very purpose of his creation. Achieving this perfection may depend on one of two things. Either on the manner of a person's life, namely, on whether at all times he tried his best in the service of God, or on his actual success in performing God's commandments. If the former then the longer he lives the greater the perfection he can reach. And if the latter, then it is the number of commandments he has actually fulfilled that counts, irrespective of how long he lives. Thus, man can be compared either to a day laborer who is paid by the hour or to a craftsman paid according to his output

and...like the days of a hireling and I—that time that is allotted to me...