< Job 6 >
1 And Job answereth and saith: —
and to answer Job and to say
2 O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
if to weigh to weigh vexation my (and desire my *Q(K)*) in/on/with balance to lift: bear unitedness
3 For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.
for now from sand sea to honor: heavy upon so word my to talk wildly
4 For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!
for arrow Almighty with me me which rage their to drink spirit my terror god to arrange me
5 Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?
to bray wild donkey upon grass if: surely no to low cattle upon fodder his
6 Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
to eat insipid from without salt if there taste in/on/with spittle mallow
7 My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.
to refuse to/for to touch soul: appetite my they(masc.) like/as illness food my
8 O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
who? to give: if only! to come (in): fulfill petition my and hope my to give: give god
9 That God would please — and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
and be willing god and to crush me to free hand his and to cut off me
10 And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain — He doth not spare, ) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.
and to be still comfort my and to rejoice in/on/with agony not to spare for not to hide word holy
11 What [is] my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?
what? strength my for to wait: hope and what? end my for to prolong soul: life my
12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?
if: surely no strength stone strength my if: surely no flesh my bronze
13 Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
if: surely no nothing help my in/on/with me and wisdom to banish from me
14 To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.
to/for despairing from neighbor his kindness and fear Almighty to leave: forsake
15 My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
brother: male-sibling my to act treacherously like torrent: river like/as channel torrent: river to pass
16 That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.
[the] be dark from ice upon them to conceal snow
17 By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
in/on/with time to burn to destroy in/on/with to warm his to put out from place their
18 Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
to twist way way: journey their to ascend: rise in/on/with formlessness and to perish
19 Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.
to look way Tema walk Sheba to await to/for them
20 They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.
be ashamed for to trust to come (in): come till her and be ashamed
21 Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
for now to be (to/for him *Q(K)*) to see: see terror and to fear
22 Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?
for to say to give to/for me and from strength your to bribe about/through/for me
23 And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?
and to escape me from hand: power enemy and from hand: power ruthless to ransom me
24 Shew me, and I — I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
to show me and I be quiet and what? to wander to understand to/for me
25 How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
what? be sick word uprightness and what? to rebuke to rebuke from you
26 For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate.
to/for to rebuke speech to devise: think and to/for spirit: breath word to despair
27 Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
also upon orphan to fall: allot and to trade upon neighbor your
28 And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?
and now be willing to turn in/on/with me and upon face your if: surely no to lie
29 Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again — my righteousness [is] in it.
to return: repent please not to be injustice (and to return: turn back *Q(K)*) still righteousness my in/on/with her
30 Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?
there in/on/with tongue my injustice if: surely no palate my not to understand desire