en_tn_lite_do_not_use/job/07/01.md

29 lines
1.4 KiB
Markdown
Raw Normal View History

2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00
The writer continues to use parallelism in each of these verses, conveying a single idea using two different statements to emphasize that his personal suffering is part of the universal suffering which all people experience. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
## Is there not hard labor for every person on earth? ##
Job poses this question to emphasize his awareness that all people experience suffering. AT: "Does not everyone have hard labor on earth?" or "Everyone has hard labor on earth" (see: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
## Are not his days like the days of a hired man? ##
Job poses this question to emphasize his awareness that all people struggle in life. AT: "And his days are like the days of a hired man." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
## Like a slave ... like a hired man ##
Job compares himself (verse 3) to those who work hard have no relief (verse 2). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
## the shadows of the evening ##
"shade"
## a hired man ##
This is a man who worked jobs one day at a time and was paid at the end of every day. "a day laborer"
## so I have been made to endure months of misery; God has assigned me months of trouble-filled nights ##
2017-06-21 20:47:54 +00:00
filled nights** - "so I endure months of misery and trouble-filled nights"
2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00
## months of misery ##
"disastrous months" or "months of emptiness"