Job 14:6
Good News Translation
Look away from us and leave us alone; let us enjoy our hard life--if we can.

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

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

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

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

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

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Job 7:16,19 I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing. . . .

Job 10:20 Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

Psalm 39:13 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

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Job 7:1,2 The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling. . . .

Matthew 20:1-8 The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. . . .

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
5The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. 6Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.7A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.…
Cross References
Job 7:1
The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

Job 14:7
A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.

Psalm 39:13
O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Isaiah 16:14
And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the multitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not many.

Job 14:5
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