Job 14:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ look away from them and desist, that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Turn from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ [O God] turn from him [and cease to watch him so pitilessly]; let him rest until he has accomplished as does a hireling the appointed time for his day.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Common English Bible

⁶ Look away from us that we may rest, until we are satisfied like a worker at day’s end.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Withdraw a little from him, so that he may rest, until his awaited day arrives, like that of the hired hand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished-for day come, as that of the hireling.

Job 14:6 Cross References

Job 10:20

Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort

Job 14:7

“For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its shoots will not cease.

Job 7:16

I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.

Job 7:19

Will you not look away from me for a while, let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Psalm 39:13

Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.”

Isaiah 16:14

But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”