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- The writer continues to use parallelism in each of these verses, conveying a single idea using two different statements to emphasize Job's intense suffering and his desire for death. (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism)
- I refuse to touch them - "Them" refers to bad tasting foods. Here Job continues to use the image of bad food as a metaphor for his unpalatable circumstances. (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor).
- Oh that I might have my request; oh, that God would grant me the thing that I long for - AT: "Oh that God would do what I have been asking him to do"
- that it would please God to crush me once - AT: "That God would go ahead and crush me"
- that he would let loose his hand and cut me off from this life - AT: "that he would act quickly and cut short my life"
- let loose his hand - "act quickly" (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_idiom)