unfoldingWord_en_tn/pro/20/19.md

# 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