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Earth, do not cover up my blood
Jobs speaks to the "earth" directly even though it cannot hear him, to add strength to his statement. The earth is personified as purposefully covering up his blood after he dies. AT: "I wish my blood would not soak into the ground but that it would remain on top of the ground as proof of how I died" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-apostrophe and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)
Earth, do not cover up my blood
Job speaks of himself dying as if he would be murdered. Here his "blood" is a metonym referring to his death. AT: "Earth, when I die, do not hide how I died unfairly" or "Let it not be hidden how I died unfairly" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
let my cry have no resting place
Job speaks of wanting everyone to know what happened to him as if his "cry" were a person that never stopped testifying to what happened to him and never rested. AT: "let everyone hear about what has happened to me" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)
see
Job uses this word to draw attention to what he says next. AT: "listen"
vouches for me
"testifies that I am righteous"
on high
This is an idiom. AT: "in heaven" or "in heaven on high" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)