From 0bcb1d1e904a7d6a8efb86df80260e225d42971f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Johnson Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:35:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ULB update and consistency with 1:3 tN --- ecc/02/22.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/ecc/02/22.md b/ecc/02/22.md index 60a2602917..960a8049e1 100644 --- a/ecc/02/22.md +++ b/ecc/02/22.md @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ -# For what profit does the person gain who works so hard and tries in his heart to complete his labors under the sun? +# What profit does a man gain from all the work and from the striving of heart that he labors at under the sun? -The author uses a rhetorical question to emphasize that the man who works hard gains nothing. Translate "what profit does ... gain" as you did in [Ecclesiastes 1:3](../01/03.md). Alternate translation: "For the person who works so hard and tries in his heart to complete his labors under the sun gains nothing." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]]) +The author uses a rhetorical question to cause the reader to think deeply about important things. Translate "what profit does a man gain from all the work" as you did in [Ecclesiastes 1:3](../01/03.md). Alternate translation: "A man seems to gain no lasting benefit from all the work and from the striving of heart that he labors at under the sun." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]]) -# works so hard and tries in his heart +# from all the work and from the striving of heart -These two phrases mean basically the same thing and emphasize how strenuously the person works. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]]) +These two phrases mean basically the same thing and emphasize how hard the person works. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]]) -# tries in his heart +# the striving of heart -This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "tries anxiously" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]]) +This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "trying anxiously" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]]) # under the sun