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OET (OET-LV) A_land it_has_been_given in/on/at/with_hand of_a_wicked_[person] the_faces judges_its he_covers if not then who [is]_it.
OET (OET-RV) The world has been given over to someone wicked.
⇔ He covers the judges eyes—so who did it?
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
אֶ֤רֶץ ׀ נִתְּנָ֬ה בְֽיַד־רָשָׁ֗ע
earth/land given in/on/at/with,hand wicked
Here, hand represents the power and control that people have over something. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “The earth has been put under the control of the wicked”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
אֶ֤רֶץ ׀ נִתְּנָ֬ה בְֽיַד־רָשָׁ֗ע
earth/land given in/on/at/with,hand wicked
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. If you need to say who does the action, the context suggests that it is God. Alternate translation: “God has given the earth into the hand of the wicked” or “God has put the earth under the control of the wicked”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
אֶ֤רֶץ ׀ נִתְּנָ֬ה
earth/land given
Job is using the term earth to mean by association the people who live on the earth. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “The people who live on the earth have been given”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
פְּנֵֽי־שֹׁפְטֶ֥יהָ יְכַסֶּ֑ה
face/surface_of judges,its covers
Job is speaking as if God literally covers the faces of judges. He means that God keeps these judges from recognizing how to decide cases fairly. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “He keeps judges from recognizing how to decide cases fairly”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
אִם־לֹ֖א
if not
Job 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: “If it is not God who does these things”
9:1-35 Job responded to Bildad by describing God’s cosmic and judicial power. His speech sounds like a complicated legal case, with a summons and response (9:3, 14-16, 19b, 32), the possibility of self-incrimination (9:20), an arbiter (9:33-34), an accusatory question (9:12), a legal sentence (9:22), and a declaration of guilt (9:28-30).
OET (OET-LV) A_land it_has_been_given in/on/at/with_hand of_a_wicked_[person] the_faces judges_its he_covers if not then who [is]_it.
OET (OET-RV) The world has been given over to someone wicked.
⇔ He covers the judges eyes—so who did it?
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.