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## grief ##
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Job has experienced great loss of family and health that is unexplained and therefore causes him "great sorrow and emotional pain".
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## how am I helped? ##
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Job asks this question to emphasize that there is no help in keeping silent. AT: "keeping silent does not help me at all." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## But now, God, you... ##
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Job now turns his complaining to God.
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## You have made me dry up ##
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"Dry up" is another way to describe how everything Job had has now vanished. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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## the leanness of my body rises up against me, it testifies against... ##
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Job describes his body's difficulties as if they were accusers against him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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## against my face ##
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"Face" represents Job's reputation. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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