< Job 14 >
1 Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
man to beget woman short day and sated turmoil
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
like/as flower to come out: issue and to languish and to flee like/as shadow and not to stand: stand
3 Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
also upon this to open eye your and [obj] me to come (in): bring in/on/with justice: judgement with you
4 Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!
who? to give: give pure from unclean not one
5 If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,
if to decide day his number month his with you (statute: allotment his *Q(K)*) to make and not to pass
6 Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
to gaze from upon him and to cease till to accept like/as hired day his
7 For there is hope for a tree: if it be cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease;
for there to/for tree hope if to cut: cut and still to pass and shoot his not to cease
8 Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground,
if be old in/on/with land: soil root his and in/on/with dust to die stock his
9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant.
from aroma water to sprout and to make foliage like plantation
10 But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?
and great man to die and to weaken and to die man and where? he
11 The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:
be gone water from sea and river to dry and to wither
12 So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised 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 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, — (Sheol )
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 )
14 (If a man die, shall he live [again]?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:
if to die great man to live all day army: duty my to wait: wait till to come (in): come change my
15 Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands.
to call: call to and I to answer you to/for deed: work hand your to long
16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
for now step my to recount not to keep: look at upon sin my
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou heapest up mine iniquity.
to seal in/on/with bundle transgression my and to smear upon iniquity: crime my
18 And indeed a mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its place;
and but mountain: mount to fall: fall to wither and rock to proceed from place his
19 The waters wear the stones, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
stone to beat water to overflow outpouring her dust land: soil and hope human to perish
20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth away; thou changest his countenance, and dismissest him.
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 knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.
to honor: honour son: child his and not to know and be little and not to understand to/for them
22 But his flesh hath pain for himself alone, and his soul mourneth for himself.
surely flesh his upon him to pain and soul: myself his upon him to mourn