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 warfare to man on earth? And his days as the days of a hired worker?
2 like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
As a servant desires the shadow, And as a hired worker expects his wage,
3 so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And they numbered nights of misery 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
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.
5 to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Q(K)*) dust skin my to harden and to flow
My flesh has been clothed [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin has been shriveled and is loathsome,
6 day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
My days swifter than a loom, And they are consumed 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] a breath, My eye does not turn back to see good.
8 not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
The eye of my beholder does not behold me. Your eyes [are] on me—and I am not.
A cloud has been consumed, and it goes, So he who is going down to Sheol does not come up. (Sheol h7585)
10 not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
He does not turn to his house again, Nor does his place discern him again.
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
Also I do not withhold my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.
12 sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
Am I a sea [monster], or a dragon, That You 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 said, My bed comforts me, In my talking He takes away my couch.
14 and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
And You have frightened me with dreams, And You terrify me from visions,
15 and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
And my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.
16 to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
I have wasted away—I do not live for all time. Cease from me, 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 You magnify him? And that You set Your heart to him?
18 and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
And inspect him in the mornings, [And] in the evenings try him?
19 like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
How long do You not look from me? You do not desist until I 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
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?
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
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!”
