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# The earth is given
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "God gives the earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# The earth is
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Here "the earth" is used to represent the people on the earth. Alternate translation: "The people of the world are" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# into the hand of
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Here "hand" is a metonym for "control." Alternate translation: "into the control of" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# God covers the faces of its judges
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This idiom means God keeps the judges of the earth from being able to judge the difference between right and wrong. Alternate translation: "God makes its judges blind" or "God keeps its judges from judging rightly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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# If it is not he who does it, then who is it?
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"If it is not God who does these things, then who does them?"
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