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29 lines
1.4 KiB
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The writer continues to use parallelism in each of these verses, conveying a single idea using two different statements to emphasize that his personal suffering is part of the universal suffering which all people experience. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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## Is there not hard labor for every person on earth? ##
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Job poses this question to emphasize his awareness that all people experience suffering. AT: "Does not everyone have hard labor on earth?" or "Everyone has hard labor on earth" (see: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## Are not his days like the days of a hired man? ##
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Job poses this question to emphasize his awareness that all people struggle in life. AT: "And his days are like the days of a hired man." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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## Like a slave ... like a hired man ##
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Job compares himself (verse 3) to those who work hard have no relief (verse 2). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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## the shadows of the evening ##
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"shade"
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## a hired man ##
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This is a man who worked jobs one day at a time and was paid at the end of every day. "a day laborer"
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## so I have been made to endure months of misery; God has assigned me months of trouble-filled nights ##
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filled nights** - "so I endure months of misery and trouble-filled nights"
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## months of misery ##
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"disastrous months" or "months of emptiness" |