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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues to answer Habakkuk and to speak of the Chaldeans as if they were one man. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Will all these not take up ... saying, 'Woe ... taken?'
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The words "all these" refer to the nations and peoples from [Habakkuk 2:5](../02/05.md). This negative rhetorical question emphasizes the positive answer. It can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "All of these nations and peoples will certainly take up ... saying,'Woe ... taken.'" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# take up a proverb and mockery, riddles
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They will use the words later in the verse to mock him.
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# riddles
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This is a question to which the one who asks knows the answer but hides it with figures of speech so that the other person needs to work hard to think of it.
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# Woe to the one increasing what is not his
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It is implicit that he is increasing his possession of things that do not belong to him. Alternate translation: "Woe to the one who claims for himself more and more things that do not belong to him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# For how long will you increase the weight of the pledges you have taken?
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The word "pledges" refers to objects that people give to others from whom they have borrowed money as a guarantee that they will repay their debt. As the man collects more and more pledges, the total weight of the pledges that he carries increases.
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# For how long will you increase the weight of the pledges you have taken?
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The Chaldeans robbing the people of the nations of their wealth is spoken of as if the Chaldeans were a person who forces others to give him pledges and to pay him what they do not owe. Alternate translation: "For how long will you make yourself rich by extorting others?" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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