English Standard Version
Job 14:6
6look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
Job 14:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
- New International Version (NIV)So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Look away from him that he may rest, Till like a hired man he finishes his day.
- New Living Translation (NLT)So leave us alone and let us rest! We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.
Context of Job 14:6
4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. 5Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass, look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day. 7"For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. 8Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,
Read all of Job 14Job 14:6 word by word
שְׁעֵ֣ה מֵעָלָ֣יו וְיֶחְדָּ֑ל עַד־יִ֝רְצֶ֗ה כְּשָׂכִ֥יר יוֹמֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 14:6
- Job 7:16I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
- Psalms 39:13Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!"
- Job 7:1"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
- Matthew 20:1"For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Commentaries on Job 14:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Turn from him, that he may rest - Cease to try him by afflictions and distresses, that he may enjoy some of the comforts of life, before he be removed from it: and thus, like a hireling, who is permitted by his master to take a little repose in the heat of the day, from severe labor, I shall also have a breathing time from affliction, before I come to that bound over which I cannot pass. See Job 10:20; (note), where there is a similar request.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Turn from him - - שׁעה shâ‛âh Look away from; or turn away the eyes; Isaiah 22:4. Job had represented the Lord as looking intently upon him, and narrowly watching all his ways. He now asks him that he would look away and suffer him to be alone, and to spend the little time he had in comfort and peace. That he may rest - Margin, “Cease.” “Let him be ceased from” - ויחדל veychâdal The idea is not that of rest, but it is that of having God cease to…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Turn--namely, Thine eyes from watching him so jealously (Job 14:3). hireling--(Job 7:1). accomplish--rather, "enjoy." That he may at least enjoy the measure of rest of the hireling who though hard worked reconciles himself to his lot by the hope of his rest and reward [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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