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## See, is not their prosperity in their own hands? ##
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Here "hand" refers to power or control. Job uses a question for emphasis. AT: "Look, these wicked people claim that they make themselves prosper" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## The advice of the wicked is far from me ##
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AT: "But I do not believe what they say"
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## How often is it...How often does it happen ##
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Job uses three questions to emphasize that it seems to him that God does not punish the wicked very often. AT: "It is not often...It is not often"
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## that the lamp of the wicked ##
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Job compares the life of the wicked to a lamp that is burning. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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## the lamp of the wicked is put out ##
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Job compares extinguishing the lamp to a person dying. AT: "that God causes them to die suddenly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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## they become like stubble before the wind or like chaff that the storm carries away ##
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AT: "God takes them away like the wind blows away the chaff" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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