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Job 14:6
Job 14:6 is verse 6 of Job chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
King James Version
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
World English Bible
Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
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Job 14:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
5 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
6 look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
7 For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
8 If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 7:19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
Job 10:20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
Job 7:1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
Job 7:2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
Matthew 20:1“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 20:2He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew 20:3About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
Matthew 20:4‘You also go into my vineyard,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you whatever is right.’
Matthew 20:5So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
Matthew 20:6About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.
Matthew 20:7‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’
Matthew 20:8When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’