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# Connecting Statement:
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Job finishes presenting his case to God.
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# For you write down bitter things against me
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"Bitter things" represents accusations. AT: "For you write down accusations against me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# you make me inherit the iniquities of my youth
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Inheriting the iniquities of his youth is a metaphor. Possible meanings are it represents 1) being guilty for the sins of his youth. AT: "you say that I am still guilty for the sins of my youth" or 2) being punished for the sins of his youth. AT: "you punish me for the sins of my youth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# the iniquities of my youth
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The abstract noun "youth" can be translated with the word "young." AT: "the sins I committed when I was young" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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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. AT: "It is as though you put my feet in the stocks" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/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. AT: "everything I do" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/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. AT: "you examine the ground where I have walked" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/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. AT: "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/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# like a rotten thing that wastes away
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Job compares his life to something that is decaying. He is slowly dying. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# like a garment that moths have eaten
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Job compares himself to clothes that are full of holes because the moths have eaten parts of it. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/inherit]] |