Job 14:5–6

⁴Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

²⁶And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

¹⁰In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

²⁷And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

²⁹Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

²⁶This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

²¹For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

²⁰But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

¹³But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

¹⁴For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

³⁵And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

⁹Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

¹IS there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

¹⁴If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

⁷And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

³⁰¶ In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

³⁶And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

²⁴Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

¹⁸I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

¹⁹How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

¹³O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

¹IS there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

²As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

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

¹⁶I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

¹FOR the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

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

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

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

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

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

⁷They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

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