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General Information:
Each verse is a parallelism that contains two rhetorical questions. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
Are you the first man that was born?
The implicit answer here is "no." This rhetorical question can be written as a statement. Alternate translation: "You are not the first man that was born." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
Were you brought into existence before the hills?
The implicit answer here is "no." This rhetorical question can be written as a statement. Alternate translation: "You were not brought into existence before the hills." or "God did not bring you into existence before he brought the hills into existence." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
Were you brought
This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "Did God bring you" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)