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Why does your heart carry you away?
Here the "heart" represents a person's emotions. AT: "Why do your emotions take you away?" or "Why do you allow your emotions to guide your decisions?" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
Why do your eyes flash
This probably refers to Job appearing angry, specifically the appearance of his eyes. AT: "Why do your eyes look angry" or "Why are you angry" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
turn your spirit
Here the "spirit" refers to the whole person. AT: "turn yourself" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)
bring out such words from your mouth
This describes him speaking. AT: "so you say harsh things against him" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
What is man ... What is he who is born
These two questions are basically the same and are used together to emphasize that a man cannot be perfect. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
What is man that he should be clean?
This rhetorical question is asked to emphasize that a man cannot be completely "clean." This can be written as a statement. AT: "A man, he cannot be completely clean." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
clean
A person who God considers spiritually acceptable is spoken of as if the person were physically clean. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
What is he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous?
This rhetorical question is asked to emphasize that a man cannot be completely "righteous." This can be written as a statement. AT: "A man who is born from a woman cannot be completely righteous." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)