See in Reader
1.8 KiB
Connecting Statement:
Elihu continues speaking.
If you have sinned ... what do you do to him?
These two lines share similar meanings. The second line intensifies the meaning of the first line. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
If you have sinned, what harm do you do to God?
Elihu asks this question to emphasize that Job's sins cannot actually do anything to God. AT: "If you have sinned, you have not done any harm to God." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
If your transgressions pile up high, what do you do to him?
Elihu speaks of "transgressions" as if they were objects, and of committing many transgressions as if it were piling those objects one on top of the other. He asks this question to emphasize that Job does nothing to God by his transgressions. AT: "If you committed a great many transgressions, you still do nothing to him." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
If you are righteous, what can you give to him? What will he receive from your hand?
The two rhetorical questions mean basically the same thing, that Job's righteousness adds nothing to God. AT: "If you are righteous, that does not enable you to give anything to him, and there is nothing that he will receive from your hand." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
receive from your hand
Here the word "hand" represents Job. AT: "receive from you" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)
another son of man
"another human-being" or "another person"