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# Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, a man whom God has hedged in?
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Job asks this question in order to make a statement. AT: "God should not give life to a man and then take away his future and confine him." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Why is light given to a man
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Here light represents life. AT: "Why does God keep a man alive" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# whose way is hidden
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Here Job speaks of his future, which he does not know in advance, as if God had hidden it from him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# a man whom God has hedged in
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Here being in difficulties and dangers is spoken of as if it were being confined within narrow limits. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# For my sighing happens instead of eating; my groaning is poured out like water
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Job expresses his anguish in two ways. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# my sighing happens instead of eating
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"Instead of eating, I mourn"
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# my groaning is poured out like water
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Moral qualities and emotions such as grief are often spoken of as if they were water. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/light]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/water]] |