Job 7
1 not army: duty to/for human (upon *Q(k)*) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
2 like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
3 so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed 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 think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
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 encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
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; they come to an end without hope.
7 to remember for spirit: breath life my not to return: again eye my to/for to see: see good
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
8 not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. (Sheol h7585)
10 not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no 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 restrain 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 the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?
13 for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
14 and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
15 and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
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 forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17 what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
18 and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
19 like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow 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 have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
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
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
