< Job 14 >
1 Man, who is born of woman, lives only a few days and is full of trouble.
man to beget woman short day and sated turmoil
2 He sprouts from the ground like a flower and is cut down; he flees like a shadow and does not last.
like/as flower to come out: issue and to languish and to flee like/as shadow and not to stand: stand
3 Do you look at any of these? Do you bring me into judgment with you?
also upon this to open eye your and [obj] me to come (in): bring in/on/with justice: judgement with you
4 Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one.
who? to give: give pure from unclean not one
5 Man's days are determined. The number of his months is with you; you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass.
if to decide day his number month his with you (statute: allotment his *Q(K)*) to make and not to pass
6 Look away from him that he may rest, so that he may enjoy his day like a hired man if he can do so.
to gaze from upon him and to cease till to accept like/as hired day his
7 There can be hope for a tree; if it is cut down, it might sprout again, so that its tender stalk does not disappear.
for there to/for tree hope if to cut: cut and still to pass and shoot his not to cease
8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,
if be old in/on/with land: soil root his and in/on/with dust to die stock his
9 yet even if it only smells water, it will bud and send out branches like a plant.
from aroma water to sprout and to make foliage like plantation
10 But man dies; he becomes weak; indeed, man stops breathing, and then where is he?
and great man to die and to weaken and to die man and where? he
11 As water disappears from a lake, and as a river loses water and dries up,
be gone water from sea and river to dry and to wither
12 so people lie down and do not rise again. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor be roused out of their sleep.
and man to lie down: lay down and not to arise: rise till lest heaven not to awake and not to rouse from sleep their
13 Oh, that you would hide me away in Sheol away from troubles, and that you would keep me in private until your wrath is over, that you would set me a fixed time to stay there and then call me to mind! (Sheol )
who? to give: if only! in/on/with hell: Sheol to treasure me to hide me till to return: turn back face: anger your to set: appoint to/for me statute: portion and to remember me (Sheol )
14 If a man dies, will he live again? If so, I would wish to wait all my weary time there until my release should come.
if to die great man to live all day army: duty my to wait: wait till to come (in): come change my
15 You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
to call: call to and I to answer you to/for deed: work hand your to long
16 You would number and care for my footsteps; you would not keep track of my sin.
for now step my to recount not to keep: look at upon sin my
17 My transgression would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover up my iniquity.
to seal in/on/with bundle transgression my and to smear upon iniquity: crime my
18 But even mountains fall and come to nothing; even rocks are moved out of their place;
and but mountain: mount to fall: fall to wither and rock to proceed from place his
19 the waters wear down the stones; their flooding washes away the dust of the earth. Like this, you destroy the hope of man.
stone to beat water to overflow outpouring her dust land: soil and hope human to perish
20 You always defeat him, and he passes away; you change his face and send him away to die.
to prevail him to/for perpetuity and to go: went to change face his and to send: depart him
21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it; and if they are brought low, he does not see it.
to honor: honour son: child his and not to know and be little and not to understand to/for them
22 He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns for himself.
surely flesh his upon him to pain and soul: myself his upon him to mourn