⁶ Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.

¹⁹ How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.

¹ Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

² As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,

¹³ Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

¹⁶ I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity.

²⁰ Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

¹ `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

² and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

³ `And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle,

⁴ and to these he said, Go ye -- also ye -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you;

⁵ and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner.

⁶ And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?

⁷ they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye -- ye also -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive.

⁸ `And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first.