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Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אִם־לֹ֣א הֲ֭תֻלִים עִמָּדִ֑י
if not mockers with=me
Job is using the word If to introduce a question that anticipates a negative answer. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate this in your translation. Alternate translation: “There are mockers with me, are there not?”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
אִם־לֹ֣א הֲ֭תֻלִים עִמָּדִ֑י
if not mockers with=me
Job is using the question form for emphasis. If you would not use the question form for that purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. Alternate translation: “Surely there are mockers with me!”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person
אִם־לֹ֣א הֲ֭תֻלִים עִמָּדִ֑י
if not mockers with=me
By mockers, Job most likely means his friends. He would be speaking of them in the third person even though they are present. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate this in the second person. Alternate translation: “All three of you have been mocking me!”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
וּ֝בְהַמְּרוֹתָ֗ם תָּלַ֥ן עֵינִֽי
and,in/on/at/with,provocation,their dwells eye,my
Job is using one part of himself, his eye, to mean all of him in the act of seeing. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation, using the second person: “Yes, all I can see is your provocations”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
וּ֝בְהַמְּרוֹתָ֗ם תָּלַ֥ן עֵינִֽי
and,in/on/at/with,provocation,their dwells eye,my
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of provocations, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “Yes, all I can see is you provoking me”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וּ֝בְהַמְּרוֹתָ֗ם תָּלַ֥ן עֵינִֽי
and,in/on/at/with,provocation,their dwells eye,my
The implication is that Job’s friends have only been provoking him, not comforting him, because otherwise he would be able to recognize their comfort. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “You have only been provoking me, not comforting me”
17:2 surrounded by mockers: Laments typically describe mockery as the response of the wicked to the distress of the righteous (Pss 22:7; 69:10-12; 89:50-52). In wisdom literature, mockery is directed against the right behavior (Prov 1:22; 9:7).
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.