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# Connecting Statement:
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Job continues to speak to his friends.
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# listen to the pleading of my own lips
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Here "lips" represent the person who is speaking. AT: "listen to what I myself plead for" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# Will you speak unrighteously ... deceitfully for him?
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Job uses these two questions to rebuke his friends for speaking unrighteously. AT: "You think that you are speaking for God, but you are speaking unrighteously. You are speaking deceitfully." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony]])
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# talk deceitfully
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"lie" or "tell lies"
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# Would you really show ... as attorneys for God?
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Showing kindness to God represents helping God or defending God against Job's complaints. Job uses these questions to rebuke his friends for thinking that they can defend God. AT: "You think that you can defend God. You think that you can argue for God like attorneys in court." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/unrighteous]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/deceive]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/courtyard]] |