< Job 7 >
1 not army: duty to/for human (upon *Q(k)*) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
2 like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,
3 so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 if to lie down: lay down and to say how to arise: rise and to measure evening and to satisfy tossing till twilight
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.
5 to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Q(K)*) dust skin my to harden and to flow
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
6 day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 to remember for spirit: breath life my not to return: again eye my to/for to see: see good
O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
8 not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
9 to end: expend cloud and to go: went so to go down hell: Sheol not to ascend: rise (Sheol )
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. (Sheol )
10 not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.
11 also I not to withhold lip my to speak: speak in/on/with distress spirit my to muse in/on/with bitter soul my
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou set a watch over me?
13 for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint.
14 and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
Then thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions,
15 and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than these my bones.
16 to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
I loathe my life. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
17 what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,
18 and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
and that thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
19 like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
How long will thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
20 to sin what? to work to/for you to watch [the] man to/for what? to set: make me to/for target to/for you and to be upon me to/for burden
If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
21 and what? not to lift: forgive transgression my and to pass: bring [obj] iniquity: crime my for now to/for dust to lie down: be dead and to seek me and nothing I
And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.