995 B
995 B
lift up your face without a sign of shame
"Lifting up your face" represents the attitude of a person who is confident and brave. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
like waters that have flowed away
Zophar is comparing memories of evil with water that flows downstream and it is gone. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)
Your life would ... like the morning.
Zophar repeats the same idea for emphasis. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
Your life would be brighter than noonday
Zophar compares a happy and prosperous life with the brightest light of the day //IF// Job would do what Zophar tells him to do. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo)
though there were darkness, it would become...
Zophar describes the possibility of life becoming happy and prosperous. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo)