The writer continues to use parallelism in each of these verses, conveying a single idea using two different statements to emphasize that his personal suffering is part of the universal suffering which all people experience.   (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

## Is there not hard labor for every person on earth? ##

Job poses this question to emphasize his awareness that all people experience suffering.  AT: "Does not everyone have hard labor on earth?" or "Everyone has hard labor on earth" (see: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

## Are not his days like the days of a hired man? ##

Job poses this question to emphasize his awareness that all people struggle in life. AT: "And his days are like the days of a hired man." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

## Like a slave ... like a hired man ##

Job compares himself (verse 3) to those who work hard have no relief (verse 2). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

## the shadows of the evening ##

"shade"

## a hired man ##

This is a man who worked jobs one day at a time and was paid at the end of every day. "a day laborer"

## so I have been made to endure months of misery; God has assigned me months of trouble-filled nights ##

filled nights** - "so I endure months of misery and trouble-filled nights"

## months of misery ##

"disastrous months" or "months of emptiness"