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27 lines
860 B
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# Connecting Statement:
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These verses continue the previous argument that no one is greater than God who could act as a judge between God and Job.
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# take God's rod off me
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Here "God's rod" is a metonym for God punishing or correcting Job. AT: "stop God from punishing me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# keep his terror from frightening me
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The abstract noun "terror" can be translated as the verb "terrify." AT: "keep him from terrifying and frightening me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# Then would I speak up
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"Then I would speak"
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# as things are now
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"because this is how things are now"
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/judgeposition]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/rod]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/terror]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/fear]] |