JOB 7:1 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Aren’t people expected to work on earth?
 ⇔ Aren’t a person’s days like the days of a hired labourer?

7:1 Variant note: על: (x-qere) ’עֲלֵי’: lemma_5921 a morph_HR id_18oRq עֲלֵי

Key: red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT Is not hardship to a man on earth?
⇔ And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

UST “Life is very difficult for all of us on this earth!
⇔ Like manual laborers, our days are long and hard.

BSB  ⇔ “Is not man consigned to labor on earth?
⇔ Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

OEB Hath man on the earth not a warfare,
⇔ With days like the days of a hireling?

WEB  ⇔ “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth?
⇔ Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

NET “Does not humanity have hard service on earth?
 ⇔ Are not their days also
 ⇔ like the days of a hired man?

LSV “Is there not warfare to man on earth? And his days as the days of a hired worker?

FBV “Isn't life for human beings like serving a sentence of hard labor? Don't their days pass like those of a hired laborer?

T4T “People need to work hard on this earth, like soldiers do;
 ⇔ all during the time that we are alive, we work hard [RHQ], like laborers/servants do.

LEB No LEB JOB 7:1 verse available

BBE Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

MOF No MOF JOB book available

JPS Is there not a time of service to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

ASV Is there not a warfare to man upon earth?
 ⇔ And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

DRA The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

YLT Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

DBY Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

RV Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? and are not his days like the days of an hireling?

WBS Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

KJB Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?[fn]
(Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?)

7.1 an appointed…: or, a warfare

BB Is ther not an appoynted time to man vpon earth? Are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hired seruaunt?
(Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hired servant?)

GNV Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?
(Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? and are not his days as the days of an hireling? )

CB Is not the life off ma vpon earth a very batayll? Are not his dayes, like the dayes of an hyred seruaunte?
(Is not the life off man upon earth a very batayll? Are not his days, like the days of an hired servante?)

WYC Knyythod is lijf of man on erthe, and his daies ben as the daies of an hired man.
(Knyythod is life of man on earth, and his days been as the days of an hired man.)

LUT Muß nicht der Mensch immer im Streit sein auf Erden, und seine Tage sind wie eines Taglöhners?
(Muß not the person immer in_the Streit his on earthn, and his days are like one Taglöhners?)

CLV [Militia est vita hominis super terram, et sicut dies mercenarii dies ejus.[fn]
([Militia it_is vita hominis over the_earth/land, and like dies mercenarii dies his.)

7.1 Et sicut dies mercenarii. GREG. Qui dies cito transire optat, ut ad laboris præmium veniat, sic omnis justus; et sicut ille in alienis laboribus sudat, sed proprium præmium sibi parat, sic justus in mundanis malis sudet, ut cœlestia bona capiat. Cavet ne vacuus ab opere dies eat, et præmium minuatur. Patitur dura, ut magis coronetur, licet merces jam sit in corde; sed tamen gravius æstus sentitur in corpore, ut post sit refrigerium in quiete, et hoc est:

7.1 And like dies mercenarii. GREG. Who dies cito transire optat, as to laboris præmium veniat, so everyone justus; and like ille in alienis laboribus sudat, but proprium præmium sibi parat, so justus in mundanis malis sudet, as cœlestia good capiat. Cavet ne vacuus away opere dies eat, and præmium minuatur. Patitur dura, as magis coronetur, licet merces yam sit in corde; but tamen gravius æstus sentitur in corpore, as after sit refrigerium in quiete, and hoc it_is:

BRN Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day?

BrLXX Πότερον οὐχὶ πειρατήριόν ἐστιν ὁ βίος ἀνθρώπου ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς; καὶ ὥσπερ μισθίου αὐθημερινοῦ ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ;
(Poteron ouⱪi peirataʸrion estin ho bios anthrōpou epi taʸs gaʸs; kai hōsper misthiou authaʸmerinou haʸ zōaʸ autou; )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

הֲ⁠לֹא־ צָבָ֣א לֶ⁠אֱנ֣וֹשׁ על־ אָ֑רֶץ וְ⁠כִ⁠ימֵ֖י שָׂכִ֣יר יָמָֽי⁠ו

?,not hard_service to,man on earth and,like,days labourer his/its=days

Job is using the question form for emphasis. If you would not use the question form for that purpose in your language, you could translate these questions as statements or as exclamations. Alternate translation: “Man has hardship on earth! Yes, his days are like the days of a hireling!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

הֲ⁠לֹא־צָבָ֣א לֶ⁠אֱנ֣וֹשׁ על־אָ֑רֶץ

?,not hard_service to,man on earth

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of hardship, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “Life on earth is hard for a man!”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

לֶ⁠אֱנ֣וֹשׁ

to,man

Here the masculine term man has a generic sense that includes both men and women. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could use language in your translation that is clearly inclusive of both men and women. Alternate translation: “to a person”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

וְ⁠כִ⁠ימֵ֖י שָׂכִ֣יר יָמָֽי⁠ו

and,like,days labourer his/its=days

Job is using this comparison to say that just as the days of a hireling (that is, someone hired by the day for manual labor) are long and difficult, so his days are long and difficult. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this point explicitly. Alternate translation, as an exclamation: “Yes, his days are long and difficult, like those of a hireling!”

Parallel JOB 7:1