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906 B
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# General Information:
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Yahweh uses another question to emphasize that he created the earth and Job did not. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Connecting Statement:
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Yahweh continues to challenge Job.
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# Who shut up the sea with doors ... and thick darkness its swaddling bands?
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This can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "Tell me who shut up the sea with doors ... and thick darkness its swaddling bands." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# shut up the sea with doors
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Yahweh compares the way that he prevented the sea from covering all of the earth to holding it back with doors. Alternate translation: "prevented the water from flooding over the land" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# as if it had come out of the womb
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Yahweh compares his creation of the sea to childbirth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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