Job 30
1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
and now to laugh upon me little from me to/for day: old which to reject father their to/for to set: make with dog flock my
2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
also strength hand their to/for what? to/for me upon them to perish vigor
3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
in/on/with poverty and in/on/with famine solitary [the] to gnaw dryness last night devastation and desolation
4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
[the] to pluck mallow upon bush and root broom food their
5 They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
from midst to drive out: drive out to shout upon them like/as thief
6 so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
in/on/with dreadful torrent: river to/for to dwell hole dust and rock
7 They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
between bush to bray underneath: under nettle to attach
8 A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
son: type of foolish also son: child without name to whip from [the] land: country/planet
9 And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
and now music their to be and to be to/for them to/for speech
10 They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
to abhor me to remove from me and from face my not to withhold spittle
11 Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
for (cord my *Q(K)*) to open and to afflict me and bridle from face my to send: depart
12 The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
upon right brood to arise: rise foot my to send: depart and to build upon me way calamity their
13 They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
to break path my to/for desire my to gain not to help to/for them
14 They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
like/as breach broad: wide to come underneath: stand devastation to roll
15 Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
to overturn upon me terror to pursue like/as spirit: breath honor my and like/as cloud to pass salvation my
16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
and now upon me to pour: pour soul my to grasp me day affliction
17 Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
night bone my to dig from upon me and to gnaw me not to lie down: sleep [emph?]
18 With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
in/on/with many strength to search clothing my like/as lip: edge tunic my to gird me
19 He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
to shoot me to/for clay and to liken like/as dust and ashes
20 I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
to cry to(wards) you and not to answer me to stand: stand and to understand in/on/with me
21 You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
to overturn to/for cruel to/for me in/on/with strength hand: power your to hate me
22 You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
to lift: raise me to(wards) spirit: breath to ride me and to melt me (wisdom *Q(K)*)
23 Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
for to know death to return: return me and house: home meeting: time appointed to/for all alive
24 Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
surely not in/on/with ruin to send: reach hand if: surely yes in/on/with disaster his to/for them cry
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
if: surely no not to weep to/for severe day be grieved soul my to/for needy
26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
for good to await and to come (in): come bad: evil and to wait: hope to/for light and to come (in): come darkness
27 I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
belly my to boil and not to silence: stationary to meet me day affliction
28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
be dark to go: walk in/on/with not heat to arise: establish in/on/with assembly to cry
29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
brother: male-sibling to be to/for jackal and neighbor to/for daughter ostrich
30 My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
skin my be black from upon me and bone my to scorch from drought
31 My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
and to be to/for mourning lyre my and pipe my to/for voice to weep
