en_tn/job/19/20.md

translationWords

• en:tw:consume
• en:tw:flesh
• en:tw:god
• en:tw:hand
• en:tw:persecute

translationNotes

• Job continues to speak to his three friends.
• My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh - Job is so thin that his skin and flesh barely cover his bones.
• I survive only by the skin of my teeth - AT: "I am barely alive." (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)
• Have pity upon me - "Have compassion on me"
• for the hand of God has touched me - "Hand" represents the power and authority of God. AT: "because God has afflicted me." (See: :en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_synecdoche)
• Why do you persecute me... - AT: "You should not persecute me..." (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_rquestion)
• Why are you not satisfied with consuming my flesh - Job uses this image to compare a person who slanders another person with an animal that eats another animal. AT: "Stop violently slandering me." (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)