# General Information: Job continues to speak. # If the only home ... and if I have spread The instances of "if" here have the meaning of "since"; Job is speaking as if all these things were true. "Since the only home ... and since I have spread" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]]) # have spread my couch in the darkness Here Job speaks of being prepared to die as having laid his bed in the darkness. Alternate translation: "have prepared myself to go and sleep among the dead" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]) # have spread my couch "have made my bed"