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# General Information:
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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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# Does not man have hard labor on earth?
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Job poses this negative question to emphasize his awareness that all people experience hard work. It can be translated as a positive statement. AT: "There is hard labor for every person on earth." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# on earth
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This is a generalization that means for the time people are living on the earth. AT: "while he lives on the earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole]])
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# Are not his days like the days of a hired man?
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Job poses this negative question to emphasize his awareness that all people struggle in life. AT: "And their days are like the days of a hired man." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# Like a slave ... like a hired man ... so I have been ... given trouble-filled nights
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Job compares his misery and trouble to that of the slave and hired man. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# the shadows of evening
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"cool shade." The implied information is that the shadows of evening provide coolness and shade from the sun (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# a hired man
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"a day laborer." This is a man who worked jobs one day at a time and was paid at the end of every day.
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# looks for his wages
"waits for his pay"
# so I have been made to endure months of misery; I have been given trouble-filled nights
This can be translated in active form. AT: "so I endure months of misery; I get trouble-filled nights" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
# months of misery
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The abstract noun "misery" can be translated as the adjective "miserable." AT: "miserable months" or "empty months" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/labor]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/earth]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/servant]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/shadow]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/endure]]