1.3 KiB
Connecting Statement:
Yahweh continues to challenge Job.
General Information:
Yahweh uses another question to emphasize that he created the earth and Job did not. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
Who shut up the sea with doors ... and thick darkness its swaddling bands?
This can be translated as a statement. AT: "Tell me who shut up the sea with doors ... and thick darkness its swaddling bands." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
shut up the sea with doors
Yahweh compares the way that he prevented the sea from covering all of the earth to holding it back with doors. AT: "prevented the water from flooding over the land" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
as if it had come out of the womb
Yahweh compares his creation of the sea to childbirth. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)
its clothing
"as clothes for the sea"
thick darkness its swaddling bands
The abstract noun "darkness" can be translated as the adjective "dark." AT: "made dark clouds its swaddling bands" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns)
swaddling bands
long pieces of cloth that people use to wrap a baby in after it is born