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# Connecting Statement:
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Yahweh continues to challenge Job.
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# General Information:
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Yahweh uses four questions to emphasize to Job that he makes rain, dew, ice, and frost and Job does not. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# General Information:
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Each of the two lines in these three verses mean similar things. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# General Information:
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Rain, dew, ice, and frost are spoken of as though they could be born like people are. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# Does the rain have a father, or, who fathers the drops of dew? Out of whose womb did the ice come? Who bore the white frost out of the sky?
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These can be translated as statements. AT: "Tell me whether the rain has a father, and who has engendered the raindrops. Tell me out of whose womb the ice came, and who bore the white frost out of the sky." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# fathers the drops of dew
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Becoming the father of the dew is a metaphor for creating it. AT: "causes the drops of dew to exist" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# ice
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"frozen water"
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# bore
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"gave birth to"
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# the white frost
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dew that freezes on the ground on cold, clear nights
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# The waters hide themselves and become like stone
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The waters are spoken of as being able to hide. During the winter the ice hides the water underneath it. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rpronouns]])
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# become like stone
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The hardness of ice is spoken of as if it was stone. AT: "become hard like stone" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# the deep
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This refers to the sea or ocean where the water is very deep. AT: "the deep sea" or "the ocean depths" or "the deep water" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/womb]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heaven]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/water]] |