< Job 14 >

1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
man to beget woman short day and sated turmoil
2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
like/as flower to come out: issue and to languish and to flee like/as shadow and not to stand: stand
3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
also upon this to open eye your and [obj] me to come (in): bring in/on/with justice: judgement with you
4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
who? to give: give pure from unclean not one
5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
if to decide day his number month his with you (statute: allotment his *Q(K)*) to make and not to pass
6 Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
to gaze from upon him and to cease till to accept like/as hired day his
7 For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.
for there to/for tree hope if to cut: cut and still to pass and shoot his not to cease
8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;
if be old in/on/with land: soil root his and in/on/with dust to die stock his
9 Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.
from aroma water to sprout and to make foliage like plantation
10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
and great man to die and to weaken and to die man and where? he
11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;
be gone water from sea and river to dry and to wither
12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
and man to lie down: lay down and not to arise: rise till lest heaven not to awake and not to rouse from sleep their
13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again! (Sheol h7585)
who? to give: if only! in/on/with hell: Sheol to treasure me to hide me till to return: turn back face: anger your to set: appoint to/for me statute: portion and to remember me (Sheol h7585)
14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
if to die great man to live all day army: duty my to wait: wait till to come (in): come change my
15 At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
to call: call to and I to answer you to/for deed: work hand your to long
16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.
for now step my to recount not to keep: look at upon sin my
17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
to seal in/on/with bundle transgression my and to smear upon iniquity: crime my
18 But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;
and but mountain: mount to fall: fall to wither and rock to proceed from place his
19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.
stone to beat water to overflow outpouring her dust land: soil and hope human to perish
20 You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.
to prevail him to/for perpetuity and to go: went to change face his and to send: depart him
21 His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.
to honor: honour son: child his and not to know and be little and not to understand to/for them
22 Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.
surely flesh his upon him to pain and soul: myself his upon him to mourn

< Job 14 >