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# General Information:
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Job continues to use parallelisms in these verses as he speaks about his sufferings and his desire for death. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# I refuse to touch them
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"Them" refers to bad tasting foods.
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# to crush me once
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This means for God to cause him to die. AT: "to crush me and let me die" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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# that he would let loose his hand and cut me off from this life
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The phrases "let loose his hand" is an idiom that means to act quickly. Also, the phrase "cut me off from this life" is a euphemism for killing him. AT: "that he would act quickly and cut short my life" or "that he would act quickly and end my life" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/cutoff]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/life]] |