God’s Word Translation
Job 14:6
6Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Look away from him that he may rest, Till like a hired man he finishes his day.
Context of Job 14:6
4“If only an unclean person could become clean! It’s not possible. 5If the number of his days and the number of his months are determined by you, and you set his limit, then he cannot go past it. Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work. 7There is hope for a tree when it is cut down. It will sprout again. Its shoots will not stop sprouting. 8If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,
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שְׁעֵ֣ה מֵעָלָ֣יו וְיֶחְדָּ֑ל עַד־יִ֝רְצֶ֗ה כְּשָׂכִ֥יר יוֹמֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 14:6
- Job 7:16I hate my life; I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone because my days are so brief.
- Job 10:20“ ‘Isn’t my life short enough? So stop ⌞this⌟, and leave me alone. Let me smile a little
- Psalms 39:13Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.
- Job 7:1“Isn’t a mortal’s stay on earth difficult like a hired hand’s daily ⌞work⌟?
- Matthew 20:1“The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at daybreak to hire workers 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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