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OET (OET-LV) [he_is]_feeding_on a_barren_[woman] [who]_not she_gives_birth and_widow not he_does_good_to.
OET (OET-RV) He devours the barren woman who’s never had a child.
⇔ He doesn’t do anything good to the widow.
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
רֹעֶ֣ה עֲ֭קָרָה
prey_on infertile
The pronoun one refers to a wicked person. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers, and it may be helpful to begin a new sentence here. Alternate translation: “A wicked person devours the barren”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
רֹעֶ֣ה
prey_on
Job is speaking as if a wicked person would literally devour or eat up childless women and widows. He means that the wicked person would cheat and exploit them in the ways he described earlier in this speech. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “the one exploiting”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
עֲ֭קָרָה לֹ֣א תֵלֵ֑ד
infertile not have_a_child
Job is using the adjective barren as a noun to mean a certain kind of person. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you can translate this word with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: “the barren woman, who has not borne”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo
עֲ֭קָרָה לֹ֣א תֵלֵ֑ד
infertile not have_a_child
It might seem that this expression contains extra information that would be unnatural to express in your language. If so, you can shorten it. Alternate translation: “the childless woman”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun
עֲ֭קָרָה לֹ֣א תֵלֵ֑ד
infertile not have_a_child
Job is not referring to a specific barren woman. He means women in general who have not had children. It may be more natural in your language to express this meaning by using a plural form. Alternate translation: “childless women”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun
וְ֝אַלְמָנָ֗ה לֹ֣א יְיֵטִֽיב
and,widow not do_~_good
Job is not referring to a specific widow. He means widows in general. It may be more natural in your language to express this meaning by using a plural form. Alternate translation: “and he does not do good to widows”
Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives
וְ֝אַלְמָנָ֗ה לֹ֣א יְיֵטִֽיב
and,widow not do_~_good
If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this as a positive expression. Alternate translation: “and he harms the widow” or “and he harms widows”
24:18-24 These sentiments appear to oppose Job’s observations, so some scholars suggest that they were the words of Bildad or Zophar. However, Job might have been pronouncing curses on the wicked, sarcastically quoting his friends’ views, or saying that the fate of the wicked presented by Eliphaz (5:2-7; 15:17-25), Bildad (8:8-19; 18:5-21), and Zophar (20:4-29) also overtakes the righteous (21:23-26).
OET (OET-LV) [he_is]_feeding_on a_barren_[woman] [who]_not she_gives_birth and_widow not he_does_good_to.
OET (OET-RV) He devours the barren woman who’s never had a child.
⇔ He doesn’t do anything good to the widow.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.