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OET (OET-RV) Indeed, a person’s just like an insect,
⇔ ≈and human offspring are as insignificant as worms.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אַ֭ף כִּֽי־אֱנ֣וֹשׁ רִמָּ֑ה
also/though that/for/because/then/when ʼₑnōshh maggot
Indeed that is an expression that indicates that what follows is greater in degree than what a person has just said. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “How much less a man, a worm”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
אַ֭ף כִּֽי־אֱנ֣וֹשׁ רִמָּ֑ה
also/though that/for/because/then/when ʼₑnōshh maggot
Bildad is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “How much less could a man, a worm, be pure”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ & וּבֶן־אָ֝דָ֗ם
ʼₑnōshh & and,son humankind
Although the terms man and son are masculine, here both words have a generic sense that includes both men and women. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could use terms in your language that are clearly inclusive of both men and women. Alternate translation: “a human … or a human child”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ רִמָּ֑ה
ʼₑnōshh maggot
Bildad is speaking as if a human were literally a worm. He probably means that humans are lowly, just as worms are lowly, living in the dirt. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “that lowly creature”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וּבֶן־אָ֝דָ֗ם תּוֹלֵעָֽה
and,son humankind worm
Bildad is similarly speaking as if a human were literally a grub. Once again the basis of the comparison seems to be that just as grubs live in the earth, God originally formed humans from the earth. So this is a parallel poetic reference to human mortality. Rather than repeat the image, it may be more natural in your language to translate this as an explanatory phrase. Alternate translation, not preceded by a comma: “whom God formed from the earth”
OET (OET-RV) Indeed, a person’s just like an insect,
⇔ ≈and human offspring are as insignificant as worms.
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.