en_tn/job/08/19.md

'joy'

the reward, the result of a person's evil behavior that Bildad scornfully voices as 'joy.' (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony)

behavior

"actions" or "way of life"

other plants will sprout up from the same soil in his place

Here the writer continues the metaphor from Job 8:16. Godless people are compared to plants that take the place of the first ones that grow among rocks. AT: "When one wicked man dies, another will take his place" or "From the soil, another will grow." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

sprout up

"grow"

same soil

"the rocky ground"

in his place

"in the place of the godless man"

neither will he take the hand of evildoers

"Hand" represents the whole person. "he will not support evildoers" or "he will not strengthen evildoers" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)