Job 30
1 “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
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 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
also strength hand their to/for what? to/for me upon them to perish vigor
3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
in/on/with poverty and in/on/with famine solitary [the] to gnaw dryness last night devastation and desolation
4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
[the] to pluck mallow upon bush and root broom food their
5 They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,
from midst to drive out: drive out to shout upon them like/as thief
6 so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
in/on/with dreadful torrent: river to/for to dwell hole dust and rock
7 They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.
between bush to bray underneath: under nettle to attach
8 They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.
son: type of foolish also son: child without name to whip from [the] land: country/planet
9 “Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
and now music their to be and to be to/for them to/for speech
10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
to abhor me to remove from me and from face my not to withhold spittle
11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
for (cord my *QK) to open and to afflict me and bridle from face my to send: depart
12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet. They cast their ways of destruction up against me.
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 promote my destruction without anyone’s help.
to break path my to/for desire my to gain not to help to/for them
14 As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
like/as breach broad: wide to come underneath: stand devastation to roll
15 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed 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 “Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
and now upon me to pour: pour soul my to grasp me day affliction
17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
night bone my to dig from upon me and to gnaw me not to lie down: sleep [emph?]
18 My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.
in/on/with many strength to search clothing my like/as lip: edge tunic my to gird me
19 He has cast me into the mire. 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 you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
to cry to(wards) you and not to answer me to stand: stand and to understand in/on/with me
21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
to overturn to/for cruel to/for me in/on/with strength hand: power your to hate me
22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
to lift: raise me to(wards) spirit: breath to ride me and to melt me (wisdom *QK)
23 For I know that you will bring me to death, 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 “However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
surely not in/on/with ruin to send: reach hand if: surely yes in/on/with disaster his to/for them cry
25 Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
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. When I waited for light, darkness came.
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 heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
belly my to boil and not to silence: stationary to meet me day affliction
28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
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 jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
brother: male-sibling to be to/for jackal and neighbor to/for daughter ostrich
30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
skin my be black from upon me and bone my to scorch from drought
31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
and to be to/for mourning lyre my and pipe my to/for voice to weep
