PDF Job 20

job/19/02.md

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-# How long will you make me suffer and break me into pieces with words?
+# How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
 
-Job uses this question to complain about how his friends are treating him. Alternate translation: "Stop making me suffer and breaking me into pieces with words." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
+Job uses this question to complain about how his friends are treating him. Alternate translation: "Stop making me suffer and crushing me with words." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
 
-# break me into pieces with words
+# crush me with words
 
 Job uses this image to say that their words make him feel very sad and hopeless. Alternate translation: "torment me with your words" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
 

job/19/16.md

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 "but he does not respond to me" or "but he does not come to me." The answer is a response to Job's call.
 
-# although I entreat him with my mouth
+# although I seek his favor with my mouth
 
 The phrase "my mouth" is a metonym which refers to Job speaking. Alternate translation: "even though I speak to him and plead with him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
 
-# entreat him
+# seek his favor
 
 "plead with him"
 

job/20/07.md

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-# will perish permanently like his own feces
+# will perish forever like his own dung
 
-Feces mixes in with the ground and disappears. The reference to feces may also imply that the wicked person is worthless. Alternate translation: "will perish permanently like his feces, which completely disappears in the ground" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
+Dung mixes in with the ground and disappears. The reference to dung may also imply that the wicked person is worthless. Alternate translation: "will perish permanently like his dung, which completely disappears in the ground" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
 
-# will perish permanently like his own feces
+# his own dung
 
-If people are embarrassed about the word feces, translators may refer to something else that disappears completely. Alternate translation: "will disappear permanently like dust that the wind blows away" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
+If people are embarrassed about the word "dung," translators may refer to something else that disappears completely. Alternate translation: "dust that the wind blows away" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
 

job/20/14.md

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 When food turns bitter in the stomach, it causes pain and a bitter taste. This is a metaphor for a person experiencing the painful consequences of doing wicked things. Alternate translation: "those wicked things become like food that has turned bitter in the stomach" or "the consequences of those wicked things are painful like food that becomes sour in the stomach" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
 
-# it becomes the poison of asps inside him
+# it becomes the poison of vipers inside him
 
 This image is even worse than sour food in the stomach. This is a metaphor for a person experiencing the terrible consequences of doing wicked things. Alternate translation: "the consequences of doing those wicked things are painful like the poison of asps inside him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
 
-# asps
+# vipers
 
 poisonous snakes
 

job/20/18.md

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 Normally "the fruit of his labor" simply refers to the results of his labor. In this case it refers to the things the wicked man had stolen. Alternate translation: "the things he had worked to get" or "the things he had stolen" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
 
-# will not be able to eat it
+# will not be able to swallow it
 
-Here "to eat" the fruit of his labor represents enjoying the things he had stolen. Alternate translation: "will not be able to enjoy them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
+Here "to swallow" the fruit of his labor represents enjoying the things he had stolen. Alternate translation: "will not be able to enjoy them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
 

job/20/20.md

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-# General Information:
+# he has known no satisfaction in his belly
 
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+The word "belly" here is a metonym for the person's desires. Alternate translation: "he has never been able to satisfy his desires" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
 

job/20/22.md

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 "he will suddenly experience trouble"
 
-# the hand of everyone who is in poverty will come against him
+# the hand of everyone who suffers will come against him
 
-Here "hand" represents power, and "hand ... will come against him" represents people attacking him. The abstract noun "poverty" can be expressed with the adjective "poor." Alternate translation: "everyone who is in poverty will attack him" or "everyone who is poor will attack him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])
+Here "hand" represents power, and "hand ... will come against him" represents people attacking him. Alternate translation: "everyone who is in poverty will attack him" or "everyone who suffers will attack him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])
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+# suffers
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+If your language has a separate word for suffering because of poverty, you may want to use it here.