InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Ecc C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C11 C12
Ecc 10 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20
OET-LV Flies_of death it_causes_to_stink it_ferments the_oil_of a_perfumer is_weighty more_than_wisdom more_than_honour folly_of a_little.
OET (OET-RV) Dead flies make a perfumer’s product stink.
⇔ ≈ Similarly, a little foolishness can ruin all your wisdom or honour.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
(Occurrence 0) As dead flies … so a little folly
(Some words not found in UHB: flies_of dead foul_odour give_off ointment_of perfumer's weightier more,than_wisdom more,than_honor folly_of a_little )
Just as flies can ruin perfume, so folly can ruin a person’s reputation for wisdom and honor. This speaks of how a little folly can ruin a person’s reputation in the same way that a few dead flies ruin perfume.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
(Occurrence 0) a little folly can overpower wisdom and honor
(Some words not found in UHB: flies_of dead foul_odour give_off ointment_of perfumer's weightier more,than_wisdom more,than_honor folly_of a_little )
This speaks of how a person acting foolishly can ruin his reputation as if his “folly” and “wisdom and honor” were people and that his folly overpowered his wisdom and honor. Alternate translation: [committing a little folly can ruin a person’s wisdom and honor]
OET-LV Flies_of death it_causes_to_stink it_ferments the_oil_of a_perfumer is_weighty more_than_wisdom more_than_honour folly_of a_little.
OET (OET-RV) Dead flies make a perfumer’s product stink.
⇔ ≈ Similarly, a little foolishness can ruin all your wisdom or honour.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.