< Job 14 >
1 man to beget woman short day and sated turmoil
Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 like/as flower to come out: issue and to languish and to flee like/as shadow and not to stand: stand
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
3 also upon this to open eye your and [obj] me to come (in): bring in/on/with justice: judgement with you
Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4 who? to give: give pure from unclean not one
Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!
5 if to decide day his number month his with you (statute: allotment his *Q(K)*) to make and not to pass
If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, [and] thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,
6 to gaze from upon him and to cease till to accept like/as hired day his
Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
7 for there to/for tree hope if to cut: cut and still to pass and shoot his not to cease
For there is hope for a tree: if it be cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease;
8 if be old in/on/with land: soil root his and in/on/with dust to die stock his
Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground,
9 from aroma water to sprout and to make foliage like plantation
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant.
10 and great man to die and to weaken and to die man and where? he
But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?
11 be gone water from sea and river to dry and to wither
The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:
12 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
So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep.
13 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 )
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, — (Sheol )
14 if to die great man to live all day army: duty my to wait: wait till to come (in): come change my
(If a man die, shall he live [again]?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:
15 to call: call to and I to answer you to/for deed: work hand your to long
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands.
16 for now step my to recount not to keep: look at upon sin my
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17 to seal in/on/with bundle transgression my and to smear upon iniquity: crime my
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou heapest up mine iniquity.
18 and but mountain: mount to fall: fall to wither and rock to proceed from place his
And indeed a mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its place;
19 stone to beat water to overflow outpouring her dust land: soil and hope human to perish
The waters wear the stones, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20 to prevail him to/for perpetuity and to go: went to change face his and to send: depart him
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth away; thou changest his countenance, and dismissest him.
21 to honor: honour son: child his and not to know and be little and not to understand to/for them
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.
22 surely flesh his upon him to pain and soul: myself his upon him to mourn
But his flesh hath pain for himself alone, and his soul mourneth for himself.