Job 14:6
New International Version
So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.

New Living Translation
So leave us alone and let us rest! We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.

English Standard Version
look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

Berean Standard Bible
look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

King James Bible
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

New King James Version
Look away from him that he may rest, Till like a hired man he finishes his day.

New American Standard Bible
“Look away from him so that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired worker.

NASB 1995
“Turn Your gaze from him that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.

NASB 1977
“Turn Thy gaze from him that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.

Legacy Standard Bible
Turn Your gaze from him that he may cease from toil, Until he accepts his day like a hired man.

Amplified Bible
“[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.

Christian Standard Bible
look away from him and let him rest so that he can enjoy his day like a hired worker.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
look away from him and let him rest so that he can enjoy his day like a hired hand.

American Standard Version
Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he will breathe until his days run out as a hired man

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, though as a hireling.

Contemporary English Version
Why don't you leave us alone and let us find some happiness while we toil and labor?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.

English Revised Version
Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.

Good News Translation
Look away from us and leave us alone; let us enjoy our hard life--if we can.

International Standard Version
Look away from him and leave him alone, so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Literal Standard Version
Look away from off him that he may cease, | Until he enjoy as a hired worker his day.

Majority Standard Bible
look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

New American Bible
Look away from him and let him be, while, like a hireling, he completes his day.

NET Bible
Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

New Revised Standard Version
look away from them, and desist, that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.

New Heart English Bible
Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Webster's Bible Translation
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

World English Bible
Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

Young's Literal Translation
Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.

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Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed, 6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand. 7For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.…

Cross References
Job 7:1
"Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Job 7:19
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

Job 14:7
For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

Psalm 39:13
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more."

Isaiah 16:14
And now the LORD says, "In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab's splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble."


Treasury of Scripture

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

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Job 7:16,19
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity…

Job 10:20
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Psalm 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

rest.

Job 7:1,2
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? …

Matthew 20:1-8
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard…

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Job 14
1. Job entreats God for favor, by the shortness of life, and certainty of death
7. He waits for his change
16. By sin the creature is subject to corruption














(6) Accomplish.--Rather, have pleasure in; rejoice at the day when his wages are paid him. Job had used the same image before (Job 7:2). Job now proceeds to enlarge on the mortality of man, comparing him, as is so often done in all literature, to the vegetable produce of the earth (Isaiah 40:7; Isaiah 65:22); with this difference, however--that a tree will sprout again when it is cut down, but even a strong man succumbs to death. "Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?"

Verse 6. - Turn from him, that he may rest; literally, look away from him; i.e. "Cease to watch him and search him out so continually" (comp. Job 7:17, 18). "Then he will be able to have a breathing-time, an interval of peace and rest, before his departure from the earth." What Job had previously desired for himself (Job 10:20) he now asks for all humanity. Till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. Hired labourers are glad when their day's work is over. So man rejoices when life comes to an end. Ver 7. - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down. God's vegetable creation is better off, in respect of length of days, than man. Let a tree be cut down, it is not therefore of necessity destroyed. There is yet hope for it. The bare dry stump will sometimes put forth tender branches, which will grow and flourish, and renew the old life. Or, if the stump be quite dead, suckers may spring up from the root and grow into new trees as vigorous as the one that they replace (comp. Isaiah 11:1). Herodotus considered that all trees had this recuperative power, except the πίτυς, a species of fir (Herod., 6:37), and the traveller Shaw says that when a palm tree dies there is always a sucker ready to take its place. Pliny also observes of the laurel, "Viva-cissima est radix, ita ut, si truncus ina-ruerit, recisa arbor mox laetius frutificet" ('Hist. Nat.,' 1:15. § 30). That it will sprout again. That is, from the spool or stump. Some trees, as the Spanish chest. nut, if cut down flush with the ground, throw up shoots from the entire circle of the stomp, often as many as fifteen or twenty. And that the tender branch thereof will not cease. The vigour of such shoots is very great. In a few years they grow to the height of the parent tree. If they are then removed they are quickly replaced by a fresh growth.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
look away
שְׁעֵ֣ה (šə·‘êh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 8159: To gaze at, about, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed, bewildered

from him
מֵעָלָ֣יו (mê·‘ā·lāw)
Preposition-m | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

and let him rest,
וְיֶחְדָּ֑ל (wə·yeḥ·dāl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle

so
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

he can enjoy
יִ֝רְצֶ֗ה (yir·ṣeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7521: To be pleased with, to satisfy a, debt

his day
יוֹמֽוֹ׃ (yō·w·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

as a hired hand.
כְּשָׂכִ֥יר (kə·śā·ḵîr)
Preposition-k | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7916: A man at wages


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