Job 7
1 not army: duty to/for human (upon *Qk) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
“Isn't life for human beings like serving a sentence of hard labor? Don't their days pass like those of a hired laborer?
2 like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
Like some slave longing for a bit of shade, like a hired hand anxiously waiting for pay day,
3 so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
I've been given months of emptiness and nights of misery.
4 if to lie down: lay down and to say how to arise: rise and to measure evening and to satisfy tossing till twilight
When I go to bed I ask, ‘When shall I get up?’ But the night goes on and on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
5 to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Qk) dust skin my to harden and to flow
My body is covered with maggots and caked in dirt; my skin is cracked, with oozing sores.
6 day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
My days pass quicker than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
7 to remember for spirit: breath life my not to return: again eye my to/for to see: see good
Remember that my life is just a breath; I will not see happiness again.
8 not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
Those watching me won't see me anymore; your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
When a cloud disappears, it's gone, just as anyone who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. (Sheol h7585)
10 not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
They will never return home, and the people they knew will forget them.
11 also I not to withhold lip my to speak: speak in/on/with distress spirit my to muse in/on/with bitter soul my
So, no, I won't hold my tongue—I will speak in the agony of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
Am I the sea or a sea monster that you have to guard me?
13 for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
If I tell myself, ‘I'll feel better if I lie down in my bed,’ or ‘it will help me to lie down on my couch,’
14 and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
then you scare me so much with dreams and terrify me with visions
15 and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
that I would rather be strangled—I would rather die than become just a bag of bones.
16 to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
I hate my life! I know I won't live long. Leave me alone because my life is just a breath.
17 what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
Why are human beings so important to you; why are you so concerned about them
18 and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
that you inspect them every morning and test them every moment? Won't you ever stop staring at me?
19 like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
Won't you ever leave me alone long enough to catch my breath?
20 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
What have I done wrong? What have I done to you, Watcher of Humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I'm a burden even to myself?
21 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
If so why don't you pardon my sins, and take away my guilt? Right now I'm going to lie down in the dust, and though you will look for me, I will be gone.”
