## 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]])