< Job 7 >
1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
not army: duty to/for human (upon *Q(k)*) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
3 so I am made to possess months of misery, 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 will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until 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 closes up, and breaks out afresh.
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 Oh remember that my life is a breath. 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 who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will 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 will return no more to his house, neither will 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 keep silent. 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 sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will 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 you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
16 I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
20 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?
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 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.”
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