en_tn/job/12/13.md

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he has good thoughts

AT: "he has good advice"

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"Behold" This word marks where Job wants the listener to pay special attention.

it cannot be built again

AT: "no one can rebuild it" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)

if he imprisons someone, there can be no release

Job says that no one can free a person if God does not allow. AT: "if God shuts someone in, no one can release that person" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo)

if he withholds the waters, they dry up

Whatever kind of water, whether rain, flood, rivers or wells will stop when God wants. AT: "If he blocks up the places where water comes from, they dry up"

and if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land"

Here Job is again saying that God can control the waters to overflowing. AT: "and if he makes them flow out, they flood the land"