Job 14:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 14:6 —

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Cross-References

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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? …
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

We are here led to think, I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence we must date both its frailty and its pollution. 1. Its frailty: Man, that is born of a woman, is therefore of few days, Job 14:1. This may refer to the first woman, who was called Eve, because she wa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. Turn--namely, Thine eyes from watching him so jealously (Job 14:3). hireling--(Job 7:1). accomplish--rather, “enjoy.” That he may at least enjoy the measure of rest of the hireling who though hard worked reconciles himself to his lot by the hope of his rest and reward [Umbreit].