en_tn_lite_do_not_use/job/17/13.md

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Job continues to speak.

If the only home ... and if I have spread

The instances of "if" here have the meaning of "since"; Job is speaking as if all these things were true. "Since the only home ... and since I have spread"

have spread my couch in the darkness

Here Job speaks of being prepared to die as having laid his bed in the darkness. Alternate translation: "have prepared myself to go and sleep among the dead" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)

have spread my couch

"have made my bed"