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# General Information:
These verses continue the earlier use of parallelism, here emphasizing in different ways the idea that people die suddenly without having achieved wisdom and without concern from others. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
# Between morning and evening they are destroyed
This refers to the idea of something happening quickly. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# they are destroyed
This may also be put into active form. AT: "they die" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
# Are not their tent cords plucked up among them?
This may be put into active form. AT: "Have not their enemies plucked up their tent cords from among them?" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
# their tent cords
Here tent cords represent a tent. Sometimes a person's home and family are pictured as his tent, which can also represent all his possessions. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/perish]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/eternity]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/tent]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/death]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/wise]]