en_tn/job/09/34.md

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# Connecting Statement:
These verses continue the previous argument that no one is greater than God who could act as a judge between God and Job.
# take God's rod off me
Here "God's rod" is a metonym for God punishing or correcting Job. Alternate translation: "stop God from punishing me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
# keep his terror from frightening me
The abstract noun "terror" can be translated as the verb "terrify." Alternate translation: "keep him from terrifying and frightening me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])