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# Connecting Statement:
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Job continues to speak about the people who were mocking him.
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# General Information:
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Job speaks about the mockers treating him cruelly as if they were a mob and an army attacking him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Upon my right hand rise the rabble
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"the rabble rise upon my right hand." Possible meanings are 1) rising upon Job's right hand represents attacking his strength. AT: "Gangs of young people attack my strength" or 2) rising upon Job's right hand represents attacking his honor. AT: "Mobs attack my honor" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# they drive me away
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"they force me to run away"
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# pile up against me their siege mounds
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Armies would pile up mounds of dirt along a city's wall in order to climb over the wall and attack the city. Job speaks of the mockers preparing to attack him as if they were doing that. AT: "prepare to attack me like an army that prepares to attack a city" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# They destroy my path
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This represents keeping Job from escaping their attack. AT: "They prevent me from escaping from them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# they push forward disaster for me
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Here "push forward disaster" represents trying to make disaster happen. AT: "they try to make disaster happen to me" or "they try to destroy me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# men who have no one to hold them back
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Here "hold them back" represents stopping them from doing something. AT: "men who have no one to stop them from attacking me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/righthand]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/raise]] |