< Job 7 >

1 not army: duty to/for human (upon *Qk) land: country/planet and like/as day hired day his
Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?
2 like/as servant/slave to long for shadow and like/as hired to await work his
As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,
3 so to inherit to/for me month vanity: vain and night trouble to count to/for me
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
4 if to lie down: lay down and to say how to arise: rise and to measure evening and to satisfy tossing till twilight
If I lay down then I said, 'When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.
5 to clothe flesh my worm (and clod *Qk) dust skin my to harden and to flow
Clothed hath been my flesh [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
6 day my to lighten from shuttle and to end: finish in/on/with end hope
My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
7 to remember for spirit: breath life my not to return: again eye my to/for to see: see good
Remember Thou that my life [is] a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.
8 not to see me eye sight eye your in/on/with me and nothing I
The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes [are] upon me — and I am not.
9 to end: expend cloud and to go: went so to go down hell: Sheol not to ascend: rise (Sheol h7585)
Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up. (Sheol h7585)
10 not to return: return still to/for house: home his and not to recognize him still place his
He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.
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
Also I — I withhold not my mouth — I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.
12 sea I if serpent: monster for to set: make upon me custody
A sea -[monster] am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
13 for to say to be sorry: comfort me bed my to lift: forgive in/on/with complaint my bed my
When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.
14 and to to be dismayed me in/on/with dream and from vision to terrify me
And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,
15 and to choose strangling soul: myself my death from bone my
And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
16 to reject not to/for forever: enduring to live to cease from me for vanity day my
I have wasted away — not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.
17 what? human for to magnify him and for to set: make to(wards) him heart your
What [is] man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?
18 and to reckon: visit him to/for morning to/for moment to test him
And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?
19 like/as what? not to gaze from me not to slacken me till to swallow up I spittle my
How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.
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
I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself — and what?
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
Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me — and I am not!

< Job 7 >