Job 7
1 “Is there not warfare to man on earth? And his days as the days of a hired worker?
¿ Not [does] service [belong] to humankind (on *Q(k)*) earth and like [the] days of a hired laborer [are] days? his.
2 As a servant desires the shadow, And as a hired worker expects his wage,
Like a slave [who] he pants for shade and like a hired laborer [who] he longs for wage[s] his.
3 So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And they numbered nights of misery to me.
So I have been allotted for myself months of worthlessness and nights of trouble people have allotted to me.
4 If I lay down, then I have said, When do I rise, And evening has been measured? And I have been full of tossings until dawn.
If I lay down and I will say when? will I arise and it will continue evening and I will be surfeited restlessness until twilight.
5 My flesh has been clothed [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin has been shriveled and is loathsome,
It is clothed flesh my maggot[s] (and clod[s] of *Q(K)*) dust skin my it has hardened and it has run.
6 My days swifter than a loom, And they are consumed without hope.
Days my they have been swift more than a weaver's shuttle and they have come to an end with not hope.
7 Remember that my life [is] a breath, My eye does not turn back to see good.
Remember that [is] a breath life my not it will return eye my to see good.
8 The eye of my beholder does not behold me. Your eyes [are] on me—and I am not.
Not it will observe me an eye of sight eyes your [will be] on me and there not [will be] me.
9 A cloud has been consumed, and it goes, So he who is going down to Sheol does not come up. (Sheol h7585)
It vanishes a cloud and it has gone thus [one who] has gone down Sheol not he will come up. (Sheol h7585)
10 He does not turn to his house again, Nor does his place discern him again.
Not he will return again to house his and not it will acknowledge him again place his.
11 Also I do not withhold my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.
Also I not I will restrain mouth my I will speak in [the] distress of spirit my I will complain in [the] bitterness of soul my.
12 Am I a sea [monster], or a dragon, That You set a watch over me?
¿ [the] sea [am] I Or? [the] sea monster that you will set over me a guard.
13 When I said, My bed comforts me, In my talking He takes away my couch.
If I said it will comfort me couch my it will carry in complaint my bed my.
14 And You have frightened me with dreams, And You terrify me from visions,
And you will dismay me by dreams and from visions you will terrify me.
15 And my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.
And it chose strangling self my death more than bones my.
16 I have wasted away—I do not live for all time. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.
I reject not for ever I will live cease from me for [are] a breath days my.
17 What [is] man that You magnify him? And that You set Your heart to him?
What? [is] humankind that you will make great him and that you will set to him heart your.
18 And inspect him in the mornings, [And] in the evenings try him?
And you have visited him to mornings to moments you test him.
19 How long do You not look from me? You do not desist until I swallow my spittle.
How long? not will you look away from me not will you let alone? me until swallow I spittle my.
20 I have sinned, what do I do to You, O watcher of man? Why have You set me for a mark to You, And I am for a burden to myself—and what?
I have sinned what? do I do - to you O watcher of humankind why? have you set me to a target of you and I have become on myself a burden.
21 You do not take away my transgression, And [do not] cause my iniquity to pass away, Because now, I lie down in dust, And You have sought me—and I am not!”
And why? - not will you forgive transgression my so may you take away? iniquity my for now to the dust I will lie down and you will look for me and there not [will be] me.
