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# can anyone understand the extensive spread of the clouds and the thunder from his hut?
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Elihu asks this rhetorical question to emphasize that no one can do these things. Alternate translation: "no one can understand the extensive spread of the clouds and the thunder from his hut." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# the extensive spread of the clouds
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The phrase "the extensive spread" can be translated with a verbal phrase. Alternate translation: "how the clouds spread across the sky" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# from his hut
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Elihu speaks of the sky as if it were a "hut" in which God lives. Alternate translation: "from the sky, where God lives" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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