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OET (OET-RV) You’d know because surely you were born before then, ☺
⇔ ≈and you’re so very, very old. ☺
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / irony
יָ֭דַעְתָּ כִּי־אָ֣ז תִּוָּלֵ֑ד וּמִסְפַּ֖ר יָמֶ֣יךָ רַבִּֽים
know that/for/because/then/when then born and,number days,your great
For emphasis, Yahweh is saying the opposite of what he means. If a speaker of your language would not do this, in your translation you could indicate what he actually means. Alternate translation: “You must admit that you actually do not know any of these things, since you were not born then; the number of your days is not that many”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
תִּוָּלֵ֑ד
born
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “you were alive”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
אָ֣ז
then
By then, Yahweh implicitly means when he created all of the things he has been describing. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “when I created all of these things”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וּמִסְפַּ֖ר יָמֶ֣יךָ רַבִּֽים
and,number days,your great
While Job actually has lived for a certain number of days, Yahweh is probably using the term days to refer to a specific time, the lifetime of Job. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and you have lived for such a long time” or “and you have had such a long lifetime”
38:21 you were born before it was all created: Cp. Prov 8:25. This sarcasm resembles that of Eliphaz (Job 15:7).
OET (OET-RV) You’d know because surely you were born before then, ☺
⇔ ≈and you’re so very, very old. ☺
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.