Job 14:6 · KJV
“Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. {rest: Heb. cease}”
— Job 14:6
Seeing his days {are} determined, the number of his months {are} with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
For 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.
Job 14 — Context
Who can bring a clean {thing} out of an unclean? not one. {can...: Heb. will give}
5Seeing his days {are} determined, the number of his months {are} with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. {rest: Heb. cease}
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.
8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Cross References
Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Job 7:1-2
{Is there} not an appointed time to man upon earth? {are not} his days also like the days of an hireling? {an appointed...: or, a warfare}
Job 10:20
{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Job 7:16
I loathe {it}; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days {are} vanity.
Matthew 20:1-8
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man {that is} an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.