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# General Information:
Job speaks about the mockers treating him cruelly as if they were a mob and an army attacking him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
# Connecting Statement:
Job continues to speak about the people who were mocking him.
Job speaks about the mockers treating him cruelly as if they were a mob or an army attacking him.
# Upon my right hand rise the rabble
"the rabble rise upon my right hand." Possible meanings are 1) rising upon Job's right hand represents attacking his strength. Alternate translation: "Gangs of young people attack my strength" or 2) rising upon Job's right hand represents attacking his honor. Alternate translation: "Mobs attack my honor" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
"Gangs of young people attack my strength" or "Mobs attack my honor"
# they drive me away
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# pile up against me their siege mounds
Armies would pile up mounds of dirt along a city's wall in order to climb over the wall and attack the city. Job speaks of the mockers preparing to attack him as if they were doing that. Alternate translation: "prepare to attack me like an army that prepares to attack a city" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
"prepare to attack me like an army that prepares to attack a city". Armies would pile up mounds of dirt along a city's wall in order to climb over the wall.