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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]])
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## Between morning and evening they are destroyed ##
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This is a figurative way of saying that humans die quickly, that life is short, just at the time between morning and evening is short. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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## they are destroyed ##
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"something destroys them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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## Are not their tent cords plucked up among them? ##
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The writer describes human beings like tents that collapse when someone pulls up the cords that hold it up. This is a figurative way of asking, "Are not they about to die?" AT: "Something plucks up their tent cords among them" or "Something plucks their lives from them."(See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]]).
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## Are not their tent cords plucked up among them? ##
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"Yes, their tent cords are plucked up among them." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-litotes]]) |