Job 7
1 The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.
not army: duty to/for human (upon *Qk) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
2 As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;
like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
3 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
4 If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall arise? and again I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.
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 rottenness and the filth of dust, my skin is withered and drawn together.
to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Qk) dust skin my to harden and to flow
6 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.
day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things.
to remember for spirit: breath life my not to return: again eye my to/for to see: see good
8 Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.
not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
9 As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up. (Sheol h7585)
to end: expend cloud and to go: went so to go down hell: Sheol not to ascend: rise (Sheol h7585)
10 Nor shall he return my more into 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 Wherefore I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with 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 hast enclosed me in a prison?
sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
13 If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved speaking with myself on my couch:
for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
14 Thou wilt frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions.
and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
15 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.
and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
16 I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.
to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
17 What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?
what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
18 Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly.
and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
19 How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down 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 keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome 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 dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, 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
