Job 7
1 Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day?
not army: duty to/for human (upon *Qk) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
2 Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? or as a hireling waiting for his pay?
like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
3 So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.
so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
4 Whenever I lie down, I say, When [will it be] day? and whenever I rise up, again [I say] when [will it be] evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.
if to lie down: lay down and to say how to arise: rise and to measure evening and to satisfy tossing till twilight
5 And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.
to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Qk) dust skin my to harden and to flow
6 And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.
day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
7 Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shall not yet again 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 that sees me shall not see me [again]: your eyes are upon me, and I am no more.
not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
9 [I am] as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again: (Sheol h7585)
to end: expend cloud and to go: went so to go down hell: Sheol not to ascend: rise (Sheol h7585)
10 and he shall surely not return to his own 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 Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose 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 serpent, that you have set a watch over me?
sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
13 I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel 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 You scare me with dreams, and do terrify me with visions.
and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
15 You will separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death.
and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
16 For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life [is] vain.
to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
17 For what is man, that you have magnified him? or that you give heed to him?
what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
18 Will you visit him till the morning, and judge him till [the time of] rest?
and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
19 How long do you not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall 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 shall I be able to do, O you that understand the mind of men? why have you made me as your accuser, and [why] am I a burden to you?
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 have you not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.
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
