Job 7
1 Is there not a warfare to a mortal, upon earth? And, as the days of a hireling, are not his days?
not army: duty to/for human (upon *Qk) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
2 As, a bondman, panteth for the shadow, and as, a hireling, longeth for his wage,
like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
3 So, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me.
so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
4 As soon as I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? yet he lengtheneth out the evening, and I am wearied with tossings until the breeze of twilight.
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 worms and a coating of dust, My skin, hath hardened, and then run afresh:
to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Qk) dust skin my to harden and to flow
6 My days, are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they are spent, without hope.
day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
7 Remember thou, that, a wind, is my life, not again shall mine eye see blessing:
to remember for spirit: breath life my not to return: again eye my to/for to see: see good
8 Nor shall see me—the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes, are upon me, and I am not.
not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
to end: expend cloud and to go: went so to go down hell: Sheol not to ascend: rise (Sheol h7585)
10 He shall not return again to his house, and his own place shall be acquainted with him no more.
not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
11 I also, cannot restrain my mouth, —I must speak, in the anguish of my spirit, I must find utterance, in 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 sea-monster, —That thou shouldst set over me a watch?
sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall help to carry my complaint,
for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and, by visions, dost thou terrify me:
and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than [these] my bones!
and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
16 I am wasted away, Not, to times age-abiding, can I live, Let me alone, for, a breath, are my days.
to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
17 What is a mortal, that thou shouldst nurture him? Or that thou shouldst fix upon him thy mind?
what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
18 That thou shouldst inspect him morning by morning, moment by moment, shouldst test him?
and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
19 How long wilt thou not look away from me? Wilt thou not let me alone, till I can swallow 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 can I do for thee, thou watcher of men? Wherefore hast thou set me as thine object of attack, or have I become, unto thee, a burden?
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 And why wilt thou not remove my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For, now, in the dust, should I lie down, and thou shouldst seek me diligently, and I should 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
