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15 lines
685 B
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## Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? ##
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Here Job uses two different clauses within a rhetorical question to emphasize his desire that God pardon his sin. He poses this question to rebuke God for making him suffer. AT: "Forgive my transgression and remove my iniquity." See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## Why do you not pardon my transgression ##
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"Why not pardon my transgression?"
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## take away ##
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"remove"
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## I will lie down in the dust ##
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The phrase "lie down in the dust" is a mild or polite way of saying "die." "I will die" (see: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]]) |