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25 lines
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Job continues to speak to his three friends.
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## My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh ##
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Job is so thin that his skin and flesh barely cover his bones.
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## I survive only by the skin of my teeth ##
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AT: "I am barely alive." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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## Have pity upon me ##
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"Have compassion on me"
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## for the hand of God has touched me ##
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"Hand" represents the power and authority of God. AT: "because God has afflicted me." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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## Why do you persecute me... ##
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AT: "You should not persecute me..." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## Why are you not satisfied with consuming my flesh ##
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Job uses this image to compare a person who slanders another person with an animal that eats another animal. AT: "Stop violently slandering me." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]) |