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# Connecting Statement:
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Eliphaz continues describing the wicked man he began to describe in [Job 15:20](../15/20.md).
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# return out of darkness
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Here "darkness" is a metaphor for trouble or misfortune. Alternate translation: "escape misfortune" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# the sword waits for him
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Here "the sword" is a metonym that represents an enemy who is waiting to kill the evil man. Possible meanings are 1) he is worried that someone will murder him. Alternate translation: "he worries that someone is about to murder him" or 2) it is certain that he is going to be murdered. Alternate translation: "someone is waiting to murder him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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