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# For now I would have been lying down quietly. I would have slept and been at rest
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Job uses two sentences to think about what it would be like if he had never been born or had died at birth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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# I would have been lying down quietly
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Job imagines something that could have happened in the past but which did not happen, as noted above. AT: "I should have been lying down quietly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])
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# lying down quietly
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"asleep, resting peacefully"
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# been at rest
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Here the word "rest" means to sleep peacefully, but also that Job would not be experiencing the pain that he does. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# with kings and counselors of the earth
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"with kings and their advisers"
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/sleep]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/king]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/counselor]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/earth]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/tomb]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/ruin]] |