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OET (OET-RV) You would even draw straws for a fatherless child.
⇔ You would make money out of your friend.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
עַל־ יָת֥וֹם תַּפִּ֑ילוּ וְ֝תִכְר֗וּ עַל־ רֵֽיעֲכֶֽם
on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in orphan throw_lots and,bargain on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in friend,your_all's
Job assumes that his friends will understand that he is referring to two practices of his culture. If a man died who was indebted to others, his creditors could claim his children as slaves in repayment of the debt. Job is describing how such creditors might cast lots in order to determine which of them would get a particular child as a slave. Job is also referring to the practice of selling someone into slavery in order to obtain repayment of a debt. You can explain some of this cultural background in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “you cast lots to see which of you will have as a slave a child whose father, indebted to you, has died, and you try to get the best price for a friend whom you are selling into slavery to obtain repayment of his debt to you”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
עַל־ יָת֥וֹם תַּפִּ֑ילוּ וְ֝תִכְר֗וּ עַל־ רֵֽיעֲכֶֽם
on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in orphan throw_lots and,bargain on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in friend,your_all's
Job is speaking as if his friends would literally cast lots to see which of them would have an fatherless child as his slave and haggle over the price of a friend they were selling into slavery. Job does not mean that his friends are actually doing these things; he is making a comparison. The implication is that these are particularly callous things to do to a helpless orphan or to a friend, and Job is saying that his friends are acting just as callously towards him. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. The UST models one way of doing this.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
יָת֥וֹם
orphan
Job is using the adjective fatherless 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 with an equivalent expression. Alternate translation: “a fatherless child” or “an orphan”
6:27 even send an orphan into slavery: Job, the former protector of orphans (31:17, 21), used a proverbial example of his counselors’ hard-heartedness toward the defenseless (see 17:5).
OET (OET-RV) You would even draw straws for a fatherless child.
⇔ You would make money out of your friend.
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.