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# You have made me dry up
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This means that Job's body has shriveled and become wrinkled. Alternate translation: "You have made my body shrivel up" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# which itself is a witness against me
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Job describes the shriveling of his body as if it were an accuser against him. Alternate translation: "and people think that shows me to be a sinner" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]])
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# the leanness of my body rises up against me, and it testifies against
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Job describes the thinness of his body as if it were accuser against him. Alternate translation: "They see how thin my body is, and they think that proves that I am guilty" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]])
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# against my face
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Here Job is referred to by his "face." Alternate translation: "against me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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