< Job 30 >
1 But now [they that are] younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
and now to laugh upon me little from me to/for day: old which to reject father their to/for to set: make with dog flock my
2 Yes, to what [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age had perished?
also strength hand their to/for what? to/for me upon them to perish vigor
3 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
in/on/with poverty and in/on/with famine solitary [the] to gnaw dryness last night devastation and desolation
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their food.
[the] to pluck mallow upon bush and root broom food their
5 They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them, as [after] a thief; )
from midst to drive out: drive out to shout upon them like/as thief
6 To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
in/on/with dreadful torrent: river to/for to dwell hole dust and rock
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.
between bush to bray underneath: under nettle to attach
8 [They were] children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
son: type of foolish also son: child without name to whip from [the] land: country/planet
9 And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.
and now music their to be and to be to/for them to/for speech
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
to abhor me to remove from me and from face my not to withhold spittle
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
for (cord my *Q(K)*) to open and to afflict me and bridle from face my to send: depart
12 Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
upon right brood to arise: rise foot my to send: depart and to build upon me way calamity their
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
to break path my to/for desire my to gain not to help to/for them
14 They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
like/as breach broad: wide to come underneath: stand devastation to roll
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
to overturn upon me terror to pursue like/as spirit: breath honor my and like/as cloud to pass salvation my
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
and now upon me to pour: pour soul my to grasp me day affliction
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
night bone my to dig from upon me and to gnaw me not to lie down: sleep [emph?]
18 By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
in/on/with many strength to search clothing my like/as lip: edge tunic my to gird me
19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
to shoot me to/for clay and to liken like/as dust and ashes
20 I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not].
to cry to(wards) you and not to answer me to stand: stand and to understand in/on/with me
21 Thou hast become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
to overturn to/for cruel to/for me in/on/with strength hand: power your to hate me
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.
to lift: raise me to(wards) spirit: breath to ride me and to melt me (wisdom *Q(K)*)
23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
for to know death to return: return me and house: home meeting: time appointed to/for all alive
24 Yet he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
surely not in/on/with ruin to send: reach hand if: surely yes in/on/with disaster his to/for them cry
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?
if: surely no not to weep to/for severe day be grieved soul my to/for needy
26 When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
for good to await and to come (in): come bad: evil and to wait: hope to/for light and to come (in): come darkness
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction came upon me.
belly my to boil and not to silence: stationary to meet me day affliction
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
be dark to go: walk in/on/with not heat to arise: establish in/on/with assembly to cry
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
brother: male-sibling to be to/for jackal and neighbor to/for daughter ostrich
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
skin my be black from upon me and bone my to scorch from drought
31 My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
and to be to/for mourning lyre my and pipe my to/for voice to weep