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Job 23 General Notes
Structure and formatting
The ULB indents the lines of this chapter because it is a poem. This chapter is Job's response to Eliphaz.
Special concepts in this chapter
Court
This chapter uses an extended metaphor of a court case to describe Job's "case," which he seeks to bring to Yahweh, who is a judge. Cultures without a legal system will have difficulty translating this chapter. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)