Verse 6

So look away from them and let them rest, till they have enjoyed their time like a hired worker.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:19 : 19 Will you never look away from me or leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
  • Job 7:1-2 : 1 Isn't human life on earth like hard labor and their days like those of a hired worker? 2 Like a servant longing for shade, and like a hired worker waiting for his wages,
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent to my tears, for I am a sojourner with You, a temporary resident like all my fathers.
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  • Job 10:20 : 20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.
  • Matt 20:1-8 : 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3 About the third hour, he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' 5 So they went. He went out again around the sixth and ninth hours and did the same thing. 6 About the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing idle. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?' 7 They answered, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard.' 8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and going to the first.'