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OET (OET-RV) Will you use a rope to guide the wild bull to plough straight,
⇔ ≈or will he come along afterwards to harrow over the furrows?
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
הֲֽתִקְשָׁר־רֵ֭ים בְּתֶ֣לֶם עֲבֹת֑וֹ
?,tie wild_ox in/on/at/with,furrow ropes,its
Yahweh is asking implicitly whether Job could use rope to harness a wild ox to a plow that was in a furrow. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “Can you harness a wild ox to a plow and get it to plow furrows in your field”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אִם־יְשַׂדֵּ֖ד עֲמָקִ֣ים אַחֲרֶֽיךָ
if harrow valleys after,you
Yahweh 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: “It would not harrow the valleys after you, would it”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
אִם־יְשַׂדֵּ֖ד עֲמָקִ֣ים אַחֲרֶֽיךָ
if harrow valleys after,you
In this culture, farmers would lead a draft animal from the front as it pulled a harrow behind it. That is why Yahweh says after you. If farmers in your culture who harrow with draft animals instead walk behind the harrow, you could translate this in a way that expressed the general meaning without specifying a particular method of harrowing. Alternate translation: “Could you use it to harrow your fields in the valleys”
Note 4 topic: translate-unknown
יְשַׂדֵּ֖ד עֲמָקִ֣ים
harrow valleys
To harrow means to smooth and break up soil once it has been plowed. If your readers would not be familiar with what it means to harrow a field, in your translation you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: “it will pull a light implement to smooth and break up the soil in your fields in the valleys”
39:9-12 Now extinct and already rare by Moses’ time, the wild ox was the most powerful land animal in early Canaan. This Old Testament symbol of strength (Num 23:22; 24:8; Deut 33:17; Pss 29:6; 92:10) was never tamed (cp. Gen 1:28; 9:2; Ps 8:5-6).
OET (OET-RV) Will you use a rope to guide the wild bull to plough straight,
⇔ ≈or will he come along afterwards to harrow over the furrows?
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.