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# opened his mouth
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This idiom means he began to speak. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# May the day on which I was born perish, the night
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Job speaks of that day and night as if they were people. AT: "I wish that I had never been born" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# the night that said, 'A boy has been conceived.'
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This expression intensifies the statement of Job's grief by going even further back in time from his birth to his conception. AT: "the night that said, 'A boy has been conceived' perish." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])
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# the night that said
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Here the night is spoken of as if it were a person who could speak. The translator may choose, however, to translate it in a less metaphorical way. AT: "the night about which people said" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# A boy has been conceived
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This may be put into active form. AT: "his mother has conceived a male child"