Job 7
1 not army: duty to/for human (upon *Q(k)*) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
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, 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, 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 will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until 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
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will 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 will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more. (Sheol h7585)
10 not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
He will return no more to his house, neither will 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 keep silent. 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 you put a guard 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 will comfort me. 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 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, death rather than 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 don’t want to 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 magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
18 and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
that you should visit 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
How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until 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 you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, 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
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
