diff --git a/job/17/12.md b/job/17/12.md index 875fdb436e..6d3e9349d2 100644 --- a/job/17/12.md +++ b/job/17/12.md @@ -1,12 +1,11 @@ # These people, these mockers -These two phrases refer to the same people, namely Job's friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. The second phrase emphasizes their unfriendly attitude. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-doublet]]) +These two phrases refer to Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. The second phrase emphasizes their unfriendly attitude. # change the night into day -This speaks of the people claiming that night is day as if they actually changed night into day. Alternate translation: "claim it is daytime when it is night" or "say the opposite of what is true, just as night is the opposite of day" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) +"say the opposite of what is true, just as night is the opposite of day" # light is near to darkness -It is implied that the mockers claim that it is light when it is close to dark. Alternate translation: "they claim that light is near to darkness" or "they claim that when it is becoming dark, that it is getting light" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]]) - +"they claim that when it is becoming dark, that it is getting light" \ No newline at end of file