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Job 14:6 KJV

Job · chapter 14 · verse 6

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.Job 14:6 · King James Version

Job 14:6 in context

4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

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.

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;

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Commentary

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.

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6

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