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# Connecting Statement:
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These verses continue the previous argument that no one is greater than God who could act as a judge between God and Job.
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# take God's rod off me
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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]])
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# keep his terror from frightening me
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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]])
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