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Job 14:6
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look away from him and let him restso that he can enjoy his day like a hired worker.
Look away from him, that he may rest, Until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
So look away from us and leave us alone until we put in our time like a laborer.
Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
"[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.
"Look away from him so that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired worker.
Look away from him, that he may rest, Until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.
Turn Your gaze from him that he may cease from toil,Until he accepts his day like a hired man.
look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
Why don't you leave us alone and let us find some happiness while we toil and labor?
look away from him, and let him be; so that, like a hired worker, he can finish his day in peace.
Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
So stop watching us; leave us alone, and let us enjoy this hard life until we have put in our time.
Turn thy face away from him, and his days will be spent like a hireling.
Look away from us and leave us alone; let us enjoy our hard life—if we can.
Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.
look away from him, so that he may rest, till he shall enjoy his day as a hireling.
Go from him, that he maye rest a litle: vntill his daye come, which he loketh for, like as an hyrelinge doth.
Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Turne from him that hee may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hircling, his day.
Go from him, that he may rest vntill his day come which he loketh for, lyke as an hireling doth.
Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, though as a hireling.
Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Therfor go thou awey fro hym a litil, `that is, bi withdrawyng of bodili lijf, that he haue reste; til the meede coueitid come, and his dai is as the dai of an hirid man.
Look away from him, that he may rest, Until he shall accomplish, as a hired worker, his day.
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Look away from him that he may rest, Till like a hired man he finishes his day.
So leave us alone and let us rest! We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.
So now look away from him that he may rest, until he has lived the time set for him like a man paid to work.
look away from them, and desist, that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.
Look sway from him, that he may rest, Till he shall pay off, as a hireling, his day.
Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.
look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.
Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.
"Turn Your gaze from him that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Turn: Job 7:16, Job 7:19, Job 10:20, Psalms 39:13
rest: Heb. cease
as an hireling: Job 7:1, Job 7:2, Matthew 20:1-8
Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:50 - according to the time
Cross-References
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the Lord gave unto them.
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Turn from him, that he may rest,.... From this short lived afflicted man, whose days are limited, and will soon be at an end, meaning himself; not that he desires he would withdraw his gracious presence, nothing is more agreeable than this to a good man, and there is nothing he more deprecates than the withdrawing of it; besides, this was Job's case, and one part of his complaint, Job 13:24; nor to withhold his supporting presence, or his providential care of him, without which he could not subsist, but must die and drop into the dust; though some think this is the sense, and render the words, "turn from him, that he may cease" n; to be, or to live, and so a wish for death, that he might have rest in the grave from all his labours, pains, and sorrows; but rather the meaning is, that he would turn away from afflicting him in this extraordinary, manner; since, according to the ordinary course of things, he would meet with many troubles and afflictions, and had but a little time to live, and therefore entreats he would take off his hand which pressed him sorely, and grant him a little respite; or "look off from him" o; not turn away his eye of love, grace, and mercy, that is not reasonable to suppose; that was what he wanted, that God would look upon him, and have compassion on him under his affliction, and abate it; but that he would turn away his angry frowning countenance from him, which he could not bear; he had opened his eyes upon him, Job 14:3; and looked very sternly, and with great severity in his countenance, on him, and it was very distressing, and even intolerable to him; and therefore begs that he would take off his eye from him, that he might have rest from his adversity, that he might have some ease of body and mind, some intervals of peace and pleasure: or "that he might cease" p from murmuring, as Aben Ezra; or rather from affliction and trouble; not that he expected to be wholly free from it in this life, for man is born to it, as he full well knew; and the people of God have always their share of it, and which abides and waits for them while in this world; but he desires he might be rid of that very sore and heavy affliction now upon him; or "that it might cease" q, the affliction he laboured under, which would be the case if God would turn himself, remove his hand, or look another way, and not so sharply upon him:
till he shall accomplish as an hireling his day; an hireling, as if he should say, that is hired for any certain time, for a year, or more or less, he has some relaxation from his labours, time for eating and sleeping to refresh nature; or he has some time allowed him as a respite from them, commonly called holy days; or if he is hired only for a day, he has time for his meals; and if his master's eye is off of him, he slackens his hand, and gets some intermission from his labour; wherefore at least Job begs that God would let him have the advantage of an hireling. Moreover, to "accomplish his day", is either to do the work of it, or to get to the end of it; every man has work to do while in this world, in things natural, civil, and religious, and is the work of his day or generation, and what must be done while it is day; and a good man is desirous of finishing it; to which the recompence of reward, though it is not of debt, but of grace, is a great encouragement, as it is to the hireling: or "till as an hireling he shall will", or "desire with delight and pleasure r his day"; that is, his day to be at an end, which he wishes and longs for; and when it comes is very acceptable to him, because he then enjoys his rest, and receives his hire; so as there is a fixed time for the hireling, there is for man on earth; and as that time is short and laborious, so is the life of man; and at the close of it, the good and faithful servant of the Lord, like the hireling, in some sense rests from his labours, and receives the reward of the inheritance, having served the Lord Christ; which makes this day a grateful and acceptable one to him, what he desires, and with pleasure waits for, being better than the day of his birth; and especially when his life is worn out with trouble, and he is weary of it through old age, and the infirmities thereof, those days being come in which he has no pleasure. Job therefore entreats that God would give him some intermission from his extraordinary troubles, till his appointed time came, which then would be as welcome to him as the close of the day is to an hireling, see Job 7:1.
n ויחדל "donec desinat, sc. esse vel vivere", Piscator, Cocceius. o שעה מעליו "respice [aliorsum] ab eo", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt, Michaelis so De Dieu, Schultens. p "Et cesset", Mercerus; "et desinat a malo suo", Pagninus. q "Et cesset afflictio", Drusius; so the Targum. r ירצה "grato animo excipiet", Tigurine version; "velit", Montanus, Bolducius; "acceptum habeat", Piscator; De Dieu, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Turn from him - - שׁעה shâ‛âh. Look away from; or turn away the eyes; Isaiah 22:4. Job had represented the Lord as looking intently upon him, and narrowly watching all his ways. He now asks him that he would look away and suffer him to be alone, and to spend the little time he had in comfort and peace.
That he may rest - Margin, “Cease.” “Let him be ceased from” - ויחדל veychâdal. The idea is not that of rest, but it is that of having God cease to afflict him; or, in other words, leaving him to himself. Job wished the hand of God to be withdrawn, and prayed that he might be left to himself.
Till he shall accomplish - - עד־ירצה ‛ad-yı̂rtseh. Septuagint, είδοκήσῃ τὸν βίον eidokēsē ton bion - “and comfort his life,” or make his life pleasant. Jerome renders it, “until his desired day - “optata dies” - shall come like that of an hireling.” Dr. Good, “that he may fill up his day.” Noyes, “that he may enjoy his day.” The word used here (רצה râtsâh) means properly to delight in, to take pleasure in, to satisfy, to pay off; and there can be no doubt that there was couched under the use of this word the notion of “enjoyment,” or “pleasure.” Job wished to be spared, that he might have comfort yet in this world. The comparison of himself with a hireling, is not that he might have comfort like a hireling - for such an image would not be pertinent or appropriate - but that his life was like that of an hireling, and he wished to be let alone until the time was completed. On this sentiment, see the notes at Job 7:1.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 14:6. Turn from him, that he may rest — Cease to try him by afflictions and distresses, that he may enjoy some of the comforts of life, before he be removed from it: and thus, like a hireling, who is permitted by his master to take a little repose in the heat of the day, from severe labour, I shall also have a breathing time from affliction, before I come to that bound over which I cannot pass. See Job 10:20, where there is a similar request.
