diff --git a/job/06/23.md b/job/06/23.md index 95c2a39d9..b61502d37 100644 --- a/job/06/23.md +++ b/job/06/23.md @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# Did I say to you, 'Give something to me?' Or, 'Offer me a gift from your wealth?' Or, 'Save me from my adversary's hand?' Or, 'Ransom me from the hand of my oppressors?' +# or, 'Save me from my adversary's hand' or, 'Ransom me from the hand of my oppressors'? -Job uses rhetorical questions to emphasize that he did not ask his friends to give him anything or to help him. Alternate translation: "I did ask you to give me money or a gift. Nor did I ask you to save me from my adversary or oppressors." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]]) +These words are the last of a series of rhetorical questions that begins in verse 22. Job uses these questions to emphasize that he has not asked his friends to give him anything or to help him. "I never said to you, 'Give ... me' or, 'Offer ... wealth' or, 'Save ... hand' or, 'Ransom ... oppressors'." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]]) -# Save me from my adversary's hand ... Ransom me from the hand of my oppressors +# my adversary's hand ... the hand of my oppressors -Both of these statements mean the same thing. Also, here "hand" represents power or control. Alternate translation: "Save me from my adversary or my oppressors" or "Save me from my adversary" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]]) +The word "hand" represents power or control. Alternate translation: "having my adversary control me ... having my oppressors control me" or "my adversary's power ... my oppressors' power" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]]) # Ransom me