< Job 30 >
1 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
But now [they that are] younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
2 also strength hand their to/for what? to/for me upon them to perish vigor
Yes, to what [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age had perished?
3 in/on/with poverty and in/on/with famine solitary [the] to gnaw dryness last night devastation and desolation
For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4 [the] to pluck mallow upon bush and root broom food their
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their food.
5 from midst to drive out: drive out to shout upon them like/as thief
They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them, as [after] a thief; )
6 in/on/with dreadful torrent: river to/for to dwell hole dust and rock
To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
7 between bush to bray underneath: under nettle to attach
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.
8 son: type of foolish also son: child without name to whip from [the] land: country/planet
[They were] children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
9 and now music their to be and to be to/for them to/for speech
And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.
10 to abhor me to remove from me and from face my not to withhold spittle
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11 for (cord my *Q(K)*) to open and to afflict me and bridle from face my to send: depart
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12 upon right brood to arise: rise foot my to send: depart and to build upon me way calamity their
Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13 to break path my to/for desire my to gain not to help to/for them
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14 like/as breach broad: wide to come underneath: stand devastation to roll
They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
15 to overturn upon me terror to pursue like/as spirit: breath honor my and like/as cloud to pass salvation my
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16 and now upon me to pour: pour soul my to grasp me day affliction
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 night bone my to dig from upon me and to gnaw me not to lie down: sleep [emph?]
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18 in/on/with many strength to search clothing my like/as lip: edge tunic my to gird me
By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19 to shoot me to/for clay and to liken like/as dust and ashes
He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
20 to cry to(wards) you and not to answer me to stand: stand and to understand in/on/with me
I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not].
21 to overturn to/for cruel to/for me in/on/with strength hand: power your to hate me
Thou hast become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22 to lift: raise me to(wards) spirit: breath to ride me and to melt me (wisdom *Q(K)*)
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.
23 for to know death to return: return me and house: home meeting: time appointed to/for all alive
For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
24 surely not in/on/with ruin to send: reach hand if: surely yes in/on/with disaster his to/for them cry
Yet he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25 if: surely no not to weep to/for severe day be grieved soul my to/for needy
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?
26 for good to await and to come (in): come bad: evil and to wait: hope to/for light and to come (in): come darkness
When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27 belly my to boil and not to silence: stationary to meet me day affliction
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction came upon me.
28 be dark to go: walk in/on/with not heat to arise: establish in/on/with assembly to cry
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
29 brother: male-sibling to be to/for jackal and neighbor to/for daughter ostrich
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30 skin my be black from upon me and bone my to scorch from drought
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31 and to be to/for mourning lyre my and pipe my to/for voice to weep
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.