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# General Information:
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The writer continues to use parallelism in the first two verses, conveying a single idea using two different statements to emphasize Job's intense suffering. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint
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Here "bed" and "couch" are metonyms for "sleep." In lying down to sleep, Job would hope to be comforted. The metonyms also have human attributes; they have the ability to comfort and ease a person. AT: "My bed, my couch, will be like someone who can comfort me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# My bed ... my couch
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These phrases refer to the same thing. AT: "My bed ... my bed"
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# you scare me
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"you" here refers to God
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# strangling
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killing a person by squeezing the throat and stopping the breathing
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# these bones of mine
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Here Job uses the word "bones" to refer to his body. AT: "This body of mine" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/comfort]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/dream]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/vision]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/death]] |