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OET (OET-LV) Like_slave [who]_he_pants_for shade and_like_hired_man [who]_he_waits_eagerly_for wages_his.
OET (OET-RV) He longs for the shade just like a slave does.
⇔ He’s just like a hired man who waits eagerly for his wages.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
כְּעֶ֥בֶד יִשְׁאַף־ צֵ֑ל וּ֝כְשָׂכִ֗יר יְקַוֶּ֥ה פָעֳלֽוֹ
like,slave longs_for shadow and,like,hired_man waits_for wages,his
The point of this comparison, as Job makes clear in the next verse, is that just as a slave and a hireling have to endure long periods of wishing for relief, so Job has gone a long time without relief. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this point explicitly. Alternate translation: “As a slave wishes all through a long, hot day that evening would come, and as a hireling must wait until the end of the day to be paid”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
צֵ֑ל
shadow
Job is using the term shade to mean by association the evening, when the sun becomes low in the sky and shadows cover the earth. Specifically, he means the end of the work day. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “the evening” or “the end of the work day”
7:2 A worker was to be paid at the end of each day (Lev 19:13; Deut 24:15), though this did not always happen (Jer 22:13; Mal 3:5; Jas 5:4).
OET (OET-LV) Like_slave [who]_he_pants_for shade and_like_hired_man [who]_he_waits_eagerly_for wages_his.
OET (OET-RV) He longs for the shade just like a slave does.
⇔ He’s just like a hired man who waits eagerly for his wages.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.