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Note 1 topic: translate-symaction
בַּשַּׁ֣חַת תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִי
in/on/at/with,pit plunge,me
Job is speaking hypothetically of something he believes God would do as a symbolic action to show that God considered him guilty rather than innocent. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could explain the significance of this action. Alternate translation: “you would plunge me into a ditch to show how guilty you considered me to be”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / yousingular
תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִי
plunge,me
The word you is singular here because Job is once again addressing God directly. So use the singular form in your translation if your language marks that distinction.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
בַּשַּׁ֣חַת
in/on/at/with,pit
By a ditch, Job implicitly means a ditch full of dirty water that would make his body dirty all over. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “into a ditch full of dirty water”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
וְ֝תִֽעֲב֗וּנִי שַׂלְמוֹתָֽי
and,abhor,me clothes,my_own
Job is speaking of his clothes as if it were a living thing that could abhor him. He means that the water in the ditch would make his body so dirty that his own clothes would not want to be on his body. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and my body would become very dirty”
9:31 The muddy ditch (literally pit) can refer to the place of the dead (17:14; 33:18), so it might allude to the defilement of death.
• The filthy clothing of guilt contrasts with the clean clothes of acquittal (Zech 3:3-5; see Isa 61:10; 64:6; Rev 19:8).
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.