Job 14:6

¹⁹How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

¹³Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

¹“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? ²As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

²⁰Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

¹⁶I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

¹“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ²When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius^[+] a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³He went out about the third hour,^[+] and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. ⁴He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way. ⁵Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,^[+] and did likewise. ⁶About the eleventh hour^[+] he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

⁷“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

⁸“When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’