look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!”
“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,
Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.
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