< Job 7 >
1 [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of a hireling?
not army: duty to/for human (upon *Q(k)*) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for [the reward of] his work;
like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day.
if to lie down: lay down and to say how to arise: rise and to measure evening and to satisfy tossing till twilight
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and become lothsome.
to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Q(K)*) dust skin my to harden and to flow
6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
7 O remember that my life [is] wind: my eye will no more see good.
to remember for spirit: breath life my not to return: again eye my to/for to see: see good
8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thy eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not.
not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
9 [As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more]. (Sheol )
to end: expend cloud and to go: went so to go down hell: Sheol not to ascend: rise (Sheol )
10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
11 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.
also I not to withhold lip my to speak: speak in/on/with distress spirit my to muse in/on/with bitter soul my
12 [Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
16 I lothe [it]; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.
to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
17 What [is] man, that thou shouldst magnify him? and that thou shouldst set thy heart upon him?
what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
18 And [that] thou shouldst visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?
and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
20 I have sinned; what shall I do to thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
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
21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].
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