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OET (OET-LV) They_surround around_me archers_of_his he_pierces kidneys_of_my and_not he_has_compassion he_pours_out on_the_ground gall_of_my.
OET (OET-RV) ≈Soldiers with bows and arrows surround me.
⇔ He pierces my kidneys but doesn’t care.
⇔ ≈He splits my gallbladder and pours my bile out on the ground.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
יָ֘סֹ֤בּוּ עָלַ֨י ׀ רַבָּ֗יו
surround around,me archers_of,his
Job is speaking as if archers whom God commands have literally surrounded him. He means that God has caused him to experience many different troubles. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly, as long as you also used plain language in the last sentence of the previous verse. Alternate translation: “he has caused me to experience many troubles”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
יְפַלַּ֣ח כִּ֭לְיוֹתַי וְלֹ֣א יַחְמ֑וֹל יִשְׁפֹּ֥ךְ לָ֝אָ֗רֶץ מְרֵרָֽתִי
slashes_open kidneys_of,my and=not mercy pours_out on_the,ground gall_of,my
Job means implicitly that these archers are seeking mercilessly to kill him by shooting their arrows into his vital organs. (By saying that God pours his bile on the ground, Job means that God’s archers have pierced his liver as well as his kidneys, since the liver produces bile and that fluid would spill out of the body if the liver were pierced.) You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “They are seeking mercilessly to kill me by shooting their arrows into my vital organs”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
יְפַלַּ֣ח כִּ֭לְיוֹתַי וְלֹ֣א יַחְמ֑וֹל יִשְׁפֹּ֥ךְ לָ֝אָ֗רֶץ מְרֵרָֽתִי
slashes_open kidneys_of,my and=not mercy pours_out on_the,ground gall_of,my
Job does not mean that arrows have literally pierced his kidneys and liver. He is continuing the image of the archers to indicate that it feels to him as if God is mercilessly trying to kill him in a way that he could not possibly survive. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “It feels to me as if God is mercilessly trying to kill me in a way that I could not possibly survive”
Note 4 topic: writing-pronouns
יְפַלַּ֣ח & וְלֹ֣א יַחְמ֑וֹל יִשְׁפֹּ֥ךְ
slashes_open & and=not mercy pours_out
The pronouns He and he refer to God. Job means that God is doing these things through the symbolic archers that he describes in the previous sentence. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could use plural pronouns to show that this is a continuation of the image of the archers. Alternate translation: “They pierce my kidneys and do not spare; they pour my bile on the ground”
16:13 pierce me: Literally pierce my kidneys.
• my blood: Literally my gall. The picture is of wounds to vital organs.
OET (OET-LV) They_surround around_me archers_of_his he_pierces kidneys_of_my and_not he_has_compassion he_pours_out on_the_ground gall_of_my.
OET (OET-RV) ≈Soldiers with bows and arrows surround me.
⇔ He pierces my kidneys but doesn’t care.
⇔ ≈He splits my gallbladder and pours my bile out on the ground.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.