< Job 7 >
1 Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
not army: duty to/for human (upon *Q(k)*) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
2 As a bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages,
like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
4 If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.
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 clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Q(K)*) dust skin my to harden and to flow
6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
7 Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more 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 that hath seen me shall behold me no [more]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
9 The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up. (Sheol )
to end: expend cloud and to go: went so to go down hell: Sheol not to ascend: rise (Sheol )
10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him again.
not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
11 Therefore I will not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?
sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions;
and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
16 I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.
to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
17 What is man, that thou makest much of him? and that thou settest thy heart upon him?
what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
18 And that thou visitest him every morning, triest him every moment?
and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
20 Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden 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 dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.
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