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24 lines
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# to him sling stones become chaff
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Chaff cannot hurt Leviathan, and sling stones are just as ineffective as chaff. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# him ... he ... His
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The words "him," "he," and "his" refer to Leviathan.
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# Clubs are regarded as straw
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A club made of straw would not hurt him, and a club made of wood would not hurt him. This can be translated in active form. AT: "He thinks of clubs as if they were straw" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# he laughs at the whirring flight of a spear
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The person throwing the spear hopes that the spear will kill Leviathan, but the writer speaks as if Leviathan knows the spear will not kill him and so laughs. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# he leaves a spreading trail in the mud as if he were a threshing sledge
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Just as a threshing sledge goes over grain on a threshing floor and turns it to powder, so Leviathan's tail leaves a trail in the mud as he wags it when he walks. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/chaff]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/thresh]] |