Job 14:6
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 14 connects to 8 cross-references. Job meditates on the brevity and inevitability of human mortality, comparing human life to a flower cut down. He muses wistfully that if a tree is cut down it sprouts again, but a man lies down and does not rise. …
Other Translations
Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.
Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
Cross References
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an …
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the …
So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them …