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# There is no end to all the people
This is an exaggeration used to emphasize a large number of people. Alternate translation: "There are very many people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole]])
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# like chasing the wind
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The author speaks of everything that people do as being useless as if they were trying to control the wind. See how you translated this in [Ecclesiastes 1:14](../01/14.md). Alternate translation: "are as useless as trying to control the wind" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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