< Job 30 >
1 But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in [their] turn, whose fathers I set at nothing; whom I did not deem worthy [to be with] my shepherd dogs.
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 Yes, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term [of life] was lost.
also strength hand their to/for what? to/for me upon them to perish vigor
3 [One is] childless in lack and famine, [such as] they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
in/on/with poverty and in/on/with famine solitary [the] to gnaw dryness last night devastation and desolation
4 Who compass the salt places on the sounding [shore], who had salt [herbs] for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in lack of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.
[the] to pluck mallow upon bush and root broom food their
5 Thieves have risen up against me,
from midst to drive out: drive out to shout upon them like/as thief
6 whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.
in/on/with dreadful torrent: river to/for to dwell hole dust and rock
7 They will cry out among the rustling [bushes].
between bush to bray underneath: under nettle to attach
8 [They are] sons of fools and vile men, [whose] name and glory [are] quenched from off the earth.
son: type of foolish also son: child without name to whip from [the] land: country/planet
9 But now I am their music, and they have me for a byword.
and now music their to be and to be to/for them to/for speech
10 And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.
to abhor me to remove from me and from face my not to withhold spittle
11 For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.
for (cord my *Q(K)*) to open and to afflict me and bridle from face my to send: depart
12 They have risen up against [me] on the right hand of [their] offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.
upon right brood to arise: rise foot my to send: depart and to build upon me way calamity their
13 My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.
to break path my to/for desire my to gain not to help to/for them
14 And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.
like/as breach broad: wide to come underneath: stand devastation to roll
15 My pains return upon [me]; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.
to overturn upon me terror to pursue like/as spirit: breath honor my and like/as cloud to pass salvation my
16 Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.
and now upon me to pour: pour soul my to grasp me day affliction
17 And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.
night bone my to dig from upon me and to gnaw me not to lie down: sleep [emph?]
18 With great force [my disease] has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me 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 And you have counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.
to shoot me to/for clay and to liken like/as dust and ashes
20 And I have cried to you, but you hear me not: but they stood still, and observed me.
to cry to(wards) you and not to answer me to stand: stand and to understand in/on/with me
21 They attacked me also without mercy: you have scourged me with a strong hand.
to overturn to/for cruel to/for me in/on/with strength hand: power your to hate me
22 And you have put me to grief, and have cast me away from safety.
to lift: raise me to(wards) spirit: breath to ride me and to melt me (wisdom *Q(K)*)
23 For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.
for to know death to return: return me and house: home meeting: time appointed to/for all alive
24 Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
surely not in/on/with ruin to send: reach hand if: surely yes in/on/with disaster his to/for them cry
25 Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
if: surely no not to weep to/for severe day be grieved soul my to/for needy
26 But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
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 belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.
belly my to boil and not to silence: stationary to meet me day affliction
28 I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.
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 of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.
brother: male-sibling to be to/for jackal and neighbor to/for daughter ostrich
30 And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.
skin my be black from upon me and bone my to scorch from drought
31 My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.
and to be to/for mourning lyre my and pipe my to/for voice to weep