Job 14:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.

New Living Translation
So leave us alone and let us rest! We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.

English Standard Version
look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

Berean Study Bible
look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

New American Standard Bible
“Look away from him so that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired worker.

NASB 1995
"Turn Your gaze from him that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.

NASB 1977
“Turn Thy gaze from him that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.

Amplified Bible
“[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.

Christian Standard Bible
look away from him and let him rest so that he can enjoy his day like a hired worker.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
look away from him and let him rest so that he can enjoy his day like a hired hand.

Contemporary English Version
Why don't you leave us alone and let us find some happiness while we toil and labor?

Good News Translation
Look away from us and leave us alone; let us enjoy our hard life--if we can.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.

International Standard Version
Look away from him and leave him alone, so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker."

NET Bible
Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

New King James Version
Look away from him that he may rest, Till like a hired man he finishes his day.

King James 2000 Bible
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

New Heart English Bible
Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

World English Bible
Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

American King James Version
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

American Standard Version
Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

A Faithful Version
Look away from him, so that he may rest until he shall finish his day, as a hireling.

Darby Bible Translation
Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

English Revised Version
Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

Webster's Bible Translation
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Go from him, that he may rest vntill his day come which he loketh for, lyke as an hireling doth.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Go from him, that he maye rest a litle: vntill his daye come, which he loketh for, like as an hyrelinge doth.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Look away from off him that he may cease, "" Until he enjoy as a hired worker his day.

Young's Literal Translation
Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.

Smith's Literal Translation
Look away from him and be shall cease, till he shall delight as an hireling in his day.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Withdraw a little from him, so that he may rest, until his awaited day arrives, like that of the hired hand.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And he will breathe until his days run out as a hired man

Lamsa Bible
Turn thy face away from him, and his days will be spent like a hireling.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, though as a hireling.
















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