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Job 14:6

Job chapter 14 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.5Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

v.6This passage

v.7For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 7:16

    I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

  • Matthew 20:1

    For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.

  • Job 7:1

    Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

  • Job 10:20

    Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 7:19

    How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

  • Psalms 39:13

    Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.