HIRELING. Moses requires, that the Hireling should be paid as soon as Levit. xix. 13.his work is over : The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night unto the morning. An Hireling’s days or year is a kind of Proverb, signifying a full year, without abating any thing of it. His days are like the days of an Hireling, Job vii. 1. The days of man are like those of an Hireling; as nothing is deducted from them, so nothing likewise is added to them. And again, chap. xiv. 6. Till he shall accomplish as an Hireling his day: to the time of his death which he waits for as the Hireling for the end of the day. See likewise Isai. xxi. 16. Within a year, according to the year of an Hireling. And xvi. 14. Within three years, as the years of an Hireling.
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