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# I said about laughter, "It is crazy,"
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# I said about laughter, "It is crazy,"
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The direct quotation can be translated as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "I said that it is crazy to laugh at things" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]])
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The direct quotation can be translated as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "I said that laughter is crazy" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]])
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# laughter
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If your language has a special word for laughter about meaningless things, you might want to use it here.
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# What use is it?
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# What use is it?
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Here the author refers to himself by his "hands." Alternate translation: "all that I had accomplished" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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Here the author refers to himself by his "hands." Alternate translation: "all that I had accomplished" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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# the labor that I had done
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"the hard work that I had done"
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# like chasing the wind
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# like chasing the wind
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The author says that everything that people do is as 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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The author says that everything that people do is as 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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# wisdom has advantages over folly, just as light is better than darkness
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# wisdom has advantages over folly, just as light is more profitable than darkness
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This speaks of how wisdom is better than folly by comparing it to how light is better than darkness. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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This speaks of how wisdom is better than folly by comparing it to how light makes life better for people than darkness does. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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The writer uses merisms to describe various aspects of life from one extreme to the other. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-merism]])
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The writer uses merisms to describe various aspects of life from one extreme to the other. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-merism]])
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# For everything there is an appointed time, and a season for every purpose
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# every matter
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These two phrases mean basically the same thing and are combined for emphasis. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
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"every event" or "every activity" or "everything that can happen"
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# under heaven
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# under heaven
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