< Job 14 >

1 Man born of a woman is short of days, and sated with harrowing trouble.
man to beget woman short day and sated turmoil
2 Like a flower he cometh forth, and is cut down: and he fleeth like a shadow, and remaineth not.
like/as flower to come out: issue and to languish and to flee like/as shadow and not to stand: stand
3 And yet on such a one dost thou open thy eyes, and me thou bringest 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 make a clean thing out of an unclean? not one [thing].
who? to give: give pure from unclean not one
5 Seeing that his days are determined, the number of his months are [fixed] with thee, that thou hast set his bounds which he cannot pass:
if to decide day his number month his with you (statute: allotment his *Q(K)*) to make and not to pass
6 Turn thyself from him that he may recover from his pain, and be able to enjoy like a hired laborer his day.
to gaze from upon him and to cease till to accept like/as hired day his
7 For there is hope for the tree: if it be cut down, it may still sprout again, while its young shoot will not cease.
for there to/for tree hope if to cut: cut and still to pass and shoot his not to cease
8 If even its root become old in the earth, and its stock die in the dust:
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 will it flourish [again], and produce boughs as though It were newly planted.
from aroma water to sprout and to make foliage like plantation
10 But man dieth, and lieth powerless: yea, the son of earth departeth—and where is he?
and great man to die and to weaken and to die man and where? he
11 The waters run off from the sea, and the river faileth and drieth up:
be gone water from sea and river to dry and to wither
12 So doth man lie down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they will not awake, and will not be roused 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 who would grant that thou mightest hide me in the nether world, that thou mightest conceal me, until thy wrath be appeased, that thou mightest set for me a fixed time, and remember me then! (Sheol h7585)
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 h7585)
14 Or, when a man dieth, will he live again? all the days of my time of service would I then wait, till [the hour of] my release were come.
if to die great man to live all day army: duty my to wait: wait till to come (in): come change my
15 Do thou call, and I will truly answer thee: have a desire for the work of thy hands.
to call: call to and I to answer you to/for deed: work hand your to long
16 Yet now thou numberest my steps: and thou waitest not with [the punishment of] my sin.
for now step my to recount not to keep: look at upon sin my
17 Sealed up in a bag is my transgression, and thou yet addest to my iniquity.
to seal in/on/with bundle transgression my and to smear upon iniquity: crime my
18 But truly a falling mountain will crumble, and [even] a rock is moved out of its place.
and but mountain: mount to fall: fall to wither and rock to proceed from place his
19 The water weareth out stones; thou sweepest away their fragments [like] the dust of the earth: and so thou destroyest the hope of man.
stone to beat water to overflow outpouring her dust land: soil and hope human to perish
20 Thou assailest him with might without ceasing, till he passeth away: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him off.
to prevail him to/for perpetuity and to go: went to change face his and to send: depart him
21 His children acquire honor, but he knoweth it not: and they are esteemed little, but he perceiveth nothing of them.
to honor: honour son: child his and not to know and be little and not to understand to/for them
22 But his body. on him, feeleth pain, and his soul will mourn for him.
surely flesh his upon him to pain and soul: myself his upon him to mourn

< Job 14 >