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Employee: Character of Unrighteous Job 7:1–3

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? / Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages. / So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

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Employee: Character of Unrighteous Job 14:1, 6

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. / look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

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Employee: Character of Unrighteous Matthew 20:1–15

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. / He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. / About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

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Employee: Character of Unrighteous Matthew 21:33–41

Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey. / When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit. / But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

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Employee: Character of Unrighteous John 10:12, 13

The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock. / The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.

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