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# General Information:
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Job continues speaking to God.
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# Who can bring something clean out of something unclean? No one
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Job uses this question to persuade God to apply what he knows about unclean things to Job. AT: "No one can bring something clean out of something unclean" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Man's days are determined
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This can be expressed in active form. AT: "You determine a man's days" or "You decide how long a man lives" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# The number of his months is with you
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The number of man's months being with God represents God deciding the number of months that the man will live. "You decide how many months he will live" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass
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Passing a limit represents living past a time that God has set for a person to die. AT: "you have appointed the time that he will die, and he cannot live longer than that" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# hired man
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a man who is hired to do a job and goes home afterwards |