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Job continues his thoughts about dying before he was born.
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## Or I would have been lying...that never see the light ##
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This describes something that might have happened but did not happen. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])
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## I would have been lying with princes ##
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"I would be resting with princes."(UDB) In this phrase, the words "lying" and "resting" represent a polite way of saying "no longer alive." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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## who once had gold, who had filled their houses with silver ##
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Job uses parallelism to emphasize what he is saying. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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## Or perhaps I would have been stillborn, like infants that never see the light ##
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Job uses parallelism to emphasize what he is saying. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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## I would have been stillborn ##
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AT: "I would have died in my mother's womb."
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## like infants that never see the light ##
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AT: "like babies who had never been born"
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## infants ##
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"babies" or "very small children" |