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Connecting Statement:
Job continues speaking to God.
lift me up to the wind ... throw me back and forth in a storm
These expressions represent the extreme suffering that God made Job endure. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
cause it to drive me along
"cause the wind to push me along"
you will bring me to death
Here "bring me to death" represents causing Job to die. AT: "you will cause me to die" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
the house appointed for all the living
Job speaks of the world of the dead as if it were a house to which God has appointed all living things to go. AT: "the world of the dead, to which everything that has ever lived goes" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
all the living
That is, all things now alive, but that will die one day.