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# General Information:
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This passage contains four rhetorical questions, which Job asks in order to really make a series of statements.
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# Why did I not die when I came out from the womb?
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"Why did I not die at birth?" Job poses this question in order to curse the day of his birth and to express his anguish. Alternate translation: "I wish I had died the day I was born" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Why did I not give up my spirit when my mother bore me?
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Job means to say that he should not have been born alive. Alternate translation: "I wish I had died when I came out of the womb." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# give up my spirit
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This refers to dying. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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