diff --git a/21-ECC/06.usfm b/21-ECC/06.usfm
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--- a/21-ECC/06.usfm
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@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 
 \s5
 \q1
-\v 7 Though all a man's work is to fill his mouth,
-\q2 yet his appetite is not filled.
+\v 7 All a man's work is for his mouth,
+\q2 yet his appetite is not satisfied.
 \q1
 \v 8 Indeed, what advantage has the wise person over the fool?
 \q2 What advantage does the poor man have
diff --git a/24-JER/06.usfm b/24-JER/06.usfm
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--- a/24-JER/06.usfm
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@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 \v 6 For Yahweh of hosts says this: Cut her trees, and heap up siegeworks against Jerusalem.
 \q This is the right city to attack, because it is filled with oppression.
 \q
-\v 7 Just as a well keeps giving water, so this city keeps producing wickedness.
-\q Violence and disorder are heard in her. Suffering and plague are continually before me.
+\v 7 As a well pours out fresh water, so this city keeps producing wickedness.
+\q Violence and disorder are heard within her; sickness and wounds are continually before my face. 
 \q
 \v 8 Accept discipline, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you
 \q and make you into a ruin, an uninhabited land.'"