Hired-labor imagery uses day wages, vineyard workers, hirelings, and harvest laborers to picture justice, dependence, faithful service, exploitation, and reward.
Hired-labor imagery uses day wages, vineyard workers, hirelings, and harvest laborers to picture justice, dependence, faithful service, exploitation, and reward.
A labor-and-reward motif in which hired servants, day wages, vineyard workers, or hirelings signify economic justice, vulnerable dependence, shepherding contrast, missionary support, or eschatological reward.
These examples show how Hired Servant, Day-Wage, and Vineyard-Labor Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night
Withheld wages are forbidden as injustice against vulnerable laborers.
thou shalt give him his hire
The day wage pictures urgent dependence and required justice.
as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work
The hireling’s longing pictures Job’s weariness and desire for relief.
oppress the hireling in his wages
Oppressing wage laborers is named in divine judgment.
the labourers are few
Harvest laborers picture workers needed for God’s mission field.
hire labourers into his vineyard
Vineyard hiring frames Jesus’ parable of grace and reward.
call the labourers, and give them their hire
Payment of laborers becomes the moment where grace confronts entitlement.
the labourer is worthy of his hire
Wages support the legitimacy of missionary provision.
he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd
The hireling contrasts self-interest with true shepherd care.
the hire of the labourers... kept back by fraud
Withheld wages cry out as evidence of oppressive wealth.
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