Job 7
1 “¿No está el hombre obligado a trabajar en la tierra? ¿No son sus días como los de un asalariado?
“People need to work hard on this earth, like soldiers do; all during the time that we are alive, we work hard [RHQ], like laborers/servants do.
2 Como un siervo que desea fervientemente la sombra, como un asalariado que busca su salario,
We are like [SIM] slaves who keep wanting to be in the cool shade, and we are like [SIM] workers who are waiting to be paid.
3 por lo que me hacen poseer meses de miseria, Las noches agotadoras están destinadas a mí.
God has given me many months [in which I think that it is] useless [to remain alive]; he has allotted/given to me many nights during which I feel miserable.
4 Cuando me acuesto, digo, “¿Cuándo me levantaré y se me pasará la noche? Doy vueltas en la cama hasta el amanecer.
When I lie down [at night] I say, ‘How long will it be until morning?’ But nights are long, and I (toss/turn over and over) [on my bed] until dawn.
5 Mi carne está vestida de gusanos y terrones de polvo. Mi piel se cierra y vuelve a brotar.
My body is covered with maggots and scabs; pus oozes out of my open sores.
6 Mis días son más rápidos que la lanzadera de un tejedor, y se gastan sin esperanza.
My days pass as quickly as a weaver’s (shuttle/stick that takes the thread back and forth), and they end without my confidently expecting [that things will be better the next day].
7 Oh, recuerda que mi vida es un soplo. Mi ojo no verá más el bien.
God, do not forget that my life is [as short as] a breath [MET]; I [think that] I [SYN] will never again be happy.
8 El ojo del que me ve no me verá más. Tus ojos estarán sobre mí, pero yo no lo estaré.
God, you [SYN] see me now, but [some day] you will not see me any more. You will search for me, but I will be gone [because I will be dead].
9 Como la nube se consume y se desvanece, por lo que el que desciende al Seol ya no subirá. (Sheol h7585)
Like [SIM] clouds (disperse/break up) and then disappear, people [die and] descend to the place where dead people are, and they do not return; (Sheol h7585)
10 No volverá más a su casa, ni su lugar lo conocerá más.
they never return to their houses, and people among whom they lived do not remember them any more.
11 “Por eso no me callaré. Hablaré con la angustia de mi espíritu. Me quejaré en la amargura de mi alma.
So, I will not be silent; while I am suffering I will speak; I will complain [to God about what has happened to me] because I [SYN] am very angry.
12 ¿Soy un mar o un monstruo marino? ¿que pongas un guardia sobre mí?
[God, ] why do you watch closely what I am doing? [Do you think that] I am a [dangerous] sea monster?
13 Cuando digo: “Mi cama me consolará. Mi sofá aliviará mi queja,’
When [I lie down at night, ] I think, ‘I will be comforted here on my bed; my pain will be less while I am sleeping.’
14 entonces me asustas con sueños y me aterra a través de visiones,
But then you give me dreams that cause me to be afraid; you give me visions that terrify me,
15 para que mi alma elija el estrangulamiento, la muerte antes que mis huesos.
with the result that I would prefer to be strangled to death than to continue to [be alive] being only a bunch of bones.
16 Aborrezco mi vida. No quiero vivir para siempre. Dejadme en paz, pues mis días no son más que un soplo.
I detest continuing to be alive; I do not want to live for many years [HYP]. Allow me to be alone, [because I will be alive] for only a very short remaining time [HYP].
17 ¿Qué es el hombre, para que lo engrandezcas? que debes poner tu mente en él,
“We human beings are not [very important]; so, why do you pay a lot of attention to us [DOU]?
18 que lo visites todas las mañanas, y lo prueban a cada momento?
You look at us every morning [to see what we are doing], and examine us every moment [to see if we are doing what is right].
19 ¿Hasta cuándo no mirarás hacia otro lado? ni me dejará en paz hasta que trague mi saliva?
(When will you stop looking at me and leave me alone [for a little time], long enough to swallow my spit?/Please stop looking at me and leave me alone [for a little time], long enough to swallow my spit.) [RHQ]
20 Si he pecado, ¿qué te hago a ti, vigilante de los hombres? Por qué me has puesto como marca para ti, ¿para que sea una carga para mí?
[Why do] you watch me constantly? If I sin, that certainly does not harm you! Why have you set me up like a target to shoot at? Do you consider me to be a heavy load that you are forced to carry?
21 ¿Por qué no perdonas mi desobediencia y quitas mi iniquidad? Por ahora me acostaré en el polvo. Me buscaréis con diligencia, pero no estaré”.
[If I have sinned, ] are you not able to forgive me for my sins— the things that I have done that are wrong? Soon I will lie in my grave; you will search for me, but [you will not find me because] I will be [dead and] gone.”
