# General Information: Job continues to speak to his three friends. # How we will persecute him! This is an exclamation. Possible meanings are 1) that they will certainly persecute Job or 2) that they will persecute him severely. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclamations]]) # The root of his troubles lies in him The "root" represents the source. AT: "He is the source of all his troubles" or "He has all these troubles because of what he has done" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])