1.8 KiB
Connecting Statement:
Job continues to speak about the people who were mocking him.
General Information:
Job speaks about the mockers treating him cruelly as if they were a mob and an army attacking him. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
Upon my right hand rise the rabble
"the rabble rise upon my right hand." Possible meanings are 1) rising upon Job's right hand represents attacking his strength. AT: "Gangs of young people attack my strength" or 2) rising upon Job's right hand represents attacking his honor. AT: "Mobs attack my honor" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
they drive me away
"they force me to run away"
pile up against me their siege mounds
Armies would pile up mounds of dirt along a city's wall in order to climb over the wall and attack the city. Job speaks of the mockers preparing to attack him as if they were doing that. AT: "prepare to attack me like an army that prepares to attack a city" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
They destroy my path
This represents keeping Job from escaping their attack. AT: "They prevent me from escaping from them" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
they push forward disaster for me
Here "push forward disaster" represents trying to make disaster happen. AT: "they try to make disaster happen to me" or "they try to destroy me" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
men who have no one to hold them back
Here "hold them back" represents stopping them from doing something. AT: "men who have no one to stop them from attacking me" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)