< Job 7 >
1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
not army: duty to/for human (upon *Q(k)*) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
2 As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:
like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.
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 covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Q(K)*) dust skin my to harden and to flow
6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again 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 will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again. (Sheol )
to end: expend cloud and to go: went so to go down hell: Sheol not to ascend: rise (Sheol )
10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.
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-beast, that you put a watch over me?
sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
13 When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;
for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
14 Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;
and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,
what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
18 And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?
and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?
like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness 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 you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
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