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Job continues speaking
The womb
AT: "The woman" or "The mother" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)
the worm will feed sweetly on him
AT: "the worm will enjoy eating his dead body" or "he will die and then his body will be eaten by worms" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
he will be remembered no more
AT: "no one will remember him anymore" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
wickedness will be broken like a tree
Just like a tree that is snapped by a strong wind, or cut down by a person, cannot be put togehter, so God will break wickedness. AT: "God will destroy the wicked like a tree that is broken" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
The wicked one devours
AT: "Just like a wild animal kills its prey, so the wicked person harms" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
widow
a woman whose husband has died