But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of jubilee:

And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

It shall not seem hard unto you, when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for the reward of his work:

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, like the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

For thus has the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: