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# General Information:
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Job continues to speak.
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# If the only home ... and if I have spread
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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"
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# have spread my couch in the darkness
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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/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# have spread my couch
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"have made my bed"
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