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# General Information:
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Bildad continues speaking to Job.
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# Why are we regarded as cattle, stupid in your sight?
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Bildad uses this rhetorical questions to emphasize to Job that he should not consider his friends as animals who cannot think or speak. It can be written as a statement in active form. Alternate translation: "We should not be regarded as beasts, as stupid in your sight." or "You should not regard us as beasts or think of us as stupid." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# Why are we
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The word "we" probably refers to Bildad and Job's other friends and so is exclusive. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-exclusive]])
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# regarded
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Regarding, looking, is a metonym here for thinking well or badly of someone. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# in your sight
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Here sight represents judgment or evaluation. Alternate translation: "in your judgment" or "in your thinking" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# your sight
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The word "your" here is plural. Bildad is using sarcasm to tell Job that Job should not think of himself as a great man. Alternate translation: "your sight, you who wrongly think you are great" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-123person]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-irony]])
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