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# You also put my feet in the stocks
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Doing this represents punishing Job and keeping him from living freely as if Job had committed a crime and was a prisoner. Alternate translation: "It is as though you put my feet in the stocks" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# the stocks
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Possible meanings are 1) a frame that holds a prisoner's feet in place so that he cannot move at all or 2) chains around a prisoner's feet that make it hard for him to walk. These are used as a form of punishment.
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# all my paths
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"Paths" represent the things Job does. Alternate translation: "everything I do" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# you examine the ground where the soles of my feet have walked
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The soles of his feet represent the person who walks. Alternate translation: "you examine the ground where I have walked" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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# you examine the ground where the soles of my feet have walked
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Examining this ground represents examining all that Job has done. Alternate translation: "it is as though you examine the ground where I have walked" or "you examine everything I do like a person examining someone's footprints on the ground" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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