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A gossip
This means someone who gossips a lot.
you should not associate with
"you should not be friends with"
If a person curses
This means if a someone express a desire that bad things will happen to someone else.
his lamp will be snuffed out in the middle of darkness
This speaks of a person dying suddenly and unexpectedly as if his life were a lamp snuffed out in the dark. AT: "his life will end as suddenly as the light of a lamp that is snuffed out in the dark" or "he will die suddenly" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
his lamp will be snuffed out
This can be stated in active form. AT: "his lamp will go out" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)
his lamp
This refers to a lamp with a burning flame. Here the lamp's flame is referred to as the lamp itself. AT: "the flame of his lamp" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)
snuffed out
to cause a flame to go out