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# For he breaks me with a tempest
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Job compares his troubles from God to the effects of a tempest. AT: "He injures me as if with a tempest" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# tempest
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a powerful or violent storm
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# multiplies my wounds
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"gives me many wounds" or "wounds me again and again"
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# without cause
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"even though I have not given him cause to do so" or "even though I am innocent"
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# to regain my breath
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This is an idiom that means "to be able to breathe again" or (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# he fills me with bitterness
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This verse pictures God as filling up Job's life with things that make him bitter. The abstract noun "bitterness" can be expressed as the adjective "bitter." AT: "he fills me up with bitter things" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]]) |