Job 14:6

The Scriptures 1998

Look away from him and let him rest, till like a hired man he enjoys his day.

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How long do You not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my saliva?

“Look away from me, That I might brighten up, Before I go away and am no more.”

Are not my days few? Then cease! Leave me alone, so that I brighten up a little,

I have wasted away, I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

For there is expectancy for a tree, if it is cut down, that it does sprout again, and that its tender branch does not cease.

But now יהוה has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the esteem of Mo’aḇ