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# If I am wicked
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"If I am guilty" or "If I do evil things"
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# woe to me
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"how terrible will it be for me"
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# even if I were righteous
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"even if I always did things rightly"
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# lift up my head
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This idiom means to be sure or confident. AT: "hold my head up" or "be confident" or "be sure about myself" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# I am filled with disgrace
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The abstract noun "disgrace" can be translated using the adjective "disgraced." AT: "I am filled up with being disgraced" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# disgrace
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"shame"
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# am looking at my own suffering
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The abstract noun "suffering" can be translated using the verb "suffer." AT: "am looking at how I suffer" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# and am looking
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The understood subject may be supplied. AT: "and I am looking" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])
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# If my head lifts itself
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This idiom means to become self-confident or proud. AT: "If I become proud" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rpronouns]])
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# you hunt me down like a lion
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Possible meanings of this simile are 1) God hunts Job like a lion hunts its prey or 2) Job is like a lion being hunted by God. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# once again you show yourself powerful to me
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This phrase expresses irony in how God's marvelous power is displayed in how he goes against Job. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rpronouns]]) |