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914 B
Markdown
29 lines
914 B
Markdown
Yahweh continues challenge to Job.
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## Who shut up the sea ##
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Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that he made the sea. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## shut up the sea with doors ##
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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." (UDB) (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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## as if it had come out of the womb ##
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Yahweh compares his creation of the sea like a birth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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## its clothing ##
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"as clothes for the sea"
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## thick darkness ##
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"very dark clouds"
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## and thick darkness its swaddling bands ##
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"and wrapped it with dark clouds like swaddling bands (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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## swaddling bands ##
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very long pieces of cloth that people use to wrap a baby in after it is born |