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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 a question to emphasize that he rules over the natural world and Job does not. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Have you entered the storehouses for the snow, or have you seen the storehouses for the hail ... and war?
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These questions expect a negative answer. They can be translated as a statement. AT: "You have never entered the storehouses for the snow, or seen the storehouses for the hail ... and war." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Have you entered the storehouses for the snow, or have you seen the storehouses for the hail
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These two phrases are similar in meaning. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# storehouses for the snow ... storehouses for the hail
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Snow and hail are pictured as being stored by Yahweh to do his will. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# hail
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balls of ice (usually small) that sometimes fall down from the sky during a storm
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# What is the path to where the lightning bolts are distributed or to where the winds are scattered from the east over the earth?
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These can be stated in active form. AT: "What is the path to where I distribute the lightning bolts or to where I scatter the winds from the east over the earth?" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# the winds are scattered
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"the winds are blown" |