< Job 30 >
1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
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 Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
also strength hand their to/for what? to/for me upon them to perish vigor
3 Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
in/on/with poverty and in/on/with famine solitary [the] to gnaw dryness last night devastation and desolation
4 They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
[the] to pluck mallow upon bush and root broom food their
5 They are driven forth from among [men] — they cry after them as after a thief —
from midst to drive out: drive out to shout upon them like/as thief
6 To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
in/on/with dreadful torrent: river to/for to dwell hole dust and rock
7 They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:
between bush to bray underneath: under nettle to attach
8 Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
son: type of foolish also son: child without name to whip from [the] land: country/planet
9 And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
and now music their to be and to be to/for them to/for speech
10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.
to abhor me to remove from me and from face my not to withhold spittle
11 For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.
for (cord my *Q(K)*) to open and to afflict me and bridle from face my to send: depart
12 At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;
upon right brood to arise: rise foot my to send: depart and to build upon me way calamity their
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;
to break path my to/for desire my to gain not to help to/for them
14 They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
like/as breach broad: wide to come underneath: stand devastation to roll
15 Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away 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 in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
and now upon me to pour: pour soul my to grasp me day affliction
17 The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
night bone my to dig from upon me and to gnaw me not to lie down: sleep [emph?]
18 By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
in/on/with many strength to search clothing my like/as lip: edge tunic my to gird me
19 He hath cast me into the mire, 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 unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.
to cry to(wards) you and not to answer me to stand: stand and to understand in/on/with me
21 Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.
to overturn to/for cruel to/for me in/on/with strength hand: power your to hate me
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
to lift: raise me to(wards) spirit: breath to ride me and to melt me (wisdom *Q(K)*)
23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
for to know death to return: return me and house: home meeting: time appointed to/for all alive
24 Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
surely not in/on/with ruin to send: reach hand if: surely yes in/on/with disaster his to/for them cry
25 Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
if: surely no not to weep to/for severe day be grieved soul my to/for needy
26 For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
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 My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted 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, I cry in the congregation.
be dark to go: walk in/on/with not heat to arise: establish in/on/with assembly to cry
29 I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
brother: male-sibling to be to/for jackal and neighbor to/for daughter ostrich
30 My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
skin my be black from upon me and bone my to scorch from drought
31 My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.
and to be to/for mourning lyre my and pipe my to/for voice to weep