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# 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. Alternate translation: "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/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# his lamp will be snuffed out
This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "his lamp will go out" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# his lamp
This refers to a lamp with a burning flame. Here the lamp's flame is referred to as the lamp itself. Alternate translation: "the flame of his lamp" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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# snuffed out
to cause a flame to go out