⁶ Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

¹⁹ How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

¹ Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

² As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

¹³ Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. Psalm 40 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹⁶ I loathe `my life'; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

²⁰ Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

¹ For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.

² And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

³ And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;

⁴ and to them he said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.

⁵ Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

⁶ And about the eleventh `hour' he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

⁷ They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.

⁸ And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.