Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 14:6

"Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day." — Job 14:6 (ASV)

Accomplish. —Rather, have pleasure in; rejoice at the day when his wages are paid him. Job had used the same image before (Job 7:2).

Job now proceeds to enlarge on the mortality of man, comparing him, as is so often done in all literature, to the vegetable produce of the earth (Isaiah 40:7; Isaiah 65:22); with this difference, however—that a tree will sprout again when it is cut down, but even a strong man succumbs to death. Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?