Job 7
1 “Isn't life for human beings like serving a sentence of hard labor? Don't their days pass like those of a hired laborer?
not army: duty to/for human (upon *Q(k)*) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
2 Like some slave longing for a bit of shade, like a hired hand anxiously waiting for pay day,
like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
3 I've been given months of emptiness and nights of misery.
so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
4 When I go to bed I ask, ‘When shall I get up?’ But the night goes on and on, and I toss and turn until 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 body is covered with maggots and caked in dirt; my skin is cracked, with oozing sores.
to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Q(K)*) dust skin my to harden and to flow
6 My days pass quicker than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
7 Remember that my life is just a breath; I will not see happiness again.
to remember for spirit: breath life my not to return: again eye my to/for to see: see good
8 Those watching me won't see me anymore; 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 When a cloud disappears, it's gone, just as anyone who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. (Sheol h7585)
to end: expend cloud and to go: went so to go down hell: Sheol not to ascend: rise (Sheol h7585)
10 They will never return home, and the people they knew will forget them.
not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
11 So, no, I won't hold my tongue—I will speak in the agony 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 the sea or a sea monster that you have to guard me?
sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
13 If I tell myself, ‘I'll feel better if I lie down in my bed,’ or ‘it will help me to lie down on my couch,’
for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
14 then you scare me so much with dreams and terrify me with visions
and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
15 that I would rather be strangled—I would rather die than become just a bag of bones.
and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
16 I hate my life! I know I won't live long. Leave me alone because my life is just a breath.
to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
17 Why are human beings so important to you; why are you so concerned about them
what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
18 that you inspect them every morning and test them every moment? Won't you ever stop staring at me?
and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
19 Won't you ever leave me alone long enough to catch my breath?
like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
20 What have I done wrong? What have I done to you, Watcher of Humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I'm a burden even 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 If so why don't you pardon my sins, and take away my guilt? Right now I'm going to lie down in the dust, and though you will look for me, 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
