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# Connecting Statement:
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Job continues to speak about the people who were mocking him.
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# General Information:
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Job speaks about the mockers treating him cruelly as if they were an army attacking him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# They come against me like an army through a wide hole in a city wall
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This represents attacking Job forcefully. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# they roll themselves in on me
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This represents many coming to attack him at once, like giant ocean waves rolling in on him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Terrors are turned upon me
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Possible meanings are 1) Job has become terrified or 2) things are happening to Job that make him afraid. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# my honor is driven away as if by the wind
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Job speaks of suddenly having no honor as if the wind had blown it from him. AT: "Nobody honors me" or "I am now a person that people do not honor" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# my prosperity passes away as a cloud
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Job speaks of his prosperity ending as if it were a cloud that was blown away. Here "prosperity" may refer to well-being or safety. AT: "I no longer prosper at all" or "I am no longer safe" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/terror]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/honor]] |