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## spend a year ##

This is an idiom that can be translated as "stay there for a year." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

## Listen, you who say - ##

**  "Someone might say"

##  Who knows what will happen tomorrow ##

This is a rhetorical question that James uses to scold his audience. It can be translated as a statement: "No one knows what will happen tomorrow." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

## and what is your life anyway ##

This is a rhetorical question that James uses to teach his audience about physical life. It can be translated as a statement and as a new sentence: "Think about your physical lives."

## For you are like a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ##

This is a simile that compares how quickly physical lives are quickly end to a mist that appears then quickly goes away. This could be translated as "You live for only a short amount of time, and you do not know when you will die." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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added v1 tn converted to an rc 2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00			`This is an idiom that can be translated as "stay there for a year." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])`
Initial commit of translationNotes 2016-02-23 02:42:46 +00:00
added v1 tn converted to an rc 2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00			`## Listen, you who say - ##`
Initial commit of translationNotes 2016-02-23 02:42:46 +00:00
added v2 tn converted to an rc 2017-06-21 20:47:54 +00:00			`** "Someone might say"`
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			`## Who knows what will happen tomorrow ##`

added v2 tn converted to an rc 2017-06-21 20:47:54 +00:00			`This is a rhetorical question that James uses to scold his audience. It can be translated as a statement: "No one knows what will happen tomorrow." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])`
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			`## and what is your life anyway ##`

			`This is a rhetorical question that James uses to teach his audience about physical life. It can be translated as a statement and as a new sentence: "Think about your physical lives."`

			`## For you are like a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ##`

			`This is a simile that compares how quickly physical lives are quickly end to a mist that appears then quickly goes away. This could be translated as "You live for only a short amount of time, and you do not know when you will die." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])`