Job 7
1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
not army: duty to/for human (upon *Q(k)*) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,
like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
3 so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.
if to lie down: lay down and to say how to arise: rise and to measure evening and to satisfy tossing till twilight
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Q(K)*) dust skin my to harden and to flow
6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
7 O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
to remember for spirit: breath life my not to return: again eye my to/for to see: see good
8 The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. (Sheol h7585)
to end: expend cloud and to go: went so to go down hell: Sheol not to ascend: rise (Sheol h7585)
10 He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.
not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
also I not to withhold lip my to speak: speak in/on/with distress spirit my to muse in/on/with bitter soul my
12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou set a watch over me?
sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint.
for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
14 Then thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions,
and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
15 so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than these my bones.
and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
16 I loathe my life. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
17 What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,
what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
18 and that thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
19 How long will thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
20 If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
to sin what? to work to/for you to watch [the] man to/for what? to set: make me to/for target to/for you and to be upon me to/for burden
21 And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
and what? not to lift: forgive transgression my and to pass: bring [obj] iniquity: crime my for now to/for dust to lie down: be dead and to seek me and nothing I
