New Revised Standard Version
Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages,

Contemporary English Version
We are slaves in search of shade; we are laborers longing for our wages.

New American Bible
Like a slave who longs for the shade, a hireling who waits for wages,

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;

As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;

ernestly desireth.

Psalm 119:131 I opened my mouth, and panted: because I longed for thy commandments.

Psalm 143:6 I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.

the shadow.

Jeremiah 6:4 Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer.

as an hireling.

Leviticus 19:13 Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by violence. The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with thee until the morning.

Deuteronomy 24:15 But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.