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 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V19 V20
OET (OET-RV) With a lazy owner, the roof beams will sag.
⇔ ≈ Idle hands will result in a leaky house.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
(Occurrence 0) Because of laziness the roof sinks in
(Some words not found in UHB: in,laziness(es) sinks_in the,rafter[s] and,in,lowering_of hands leaks the,house )
A lazy person does not keep up on the regular house maintenance. Alternate translation: [Because a lazy person does not repair his house, the roof sinks in]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
(Occurrence 0) because of idle hands
(Some words not found in UHB: in,laziness(es) sinks_in the,rafter[s] and,in,lowering_of hands leaks the,house )
Here a person is represented by his “hands” Alternate translation: [because of an idle person] or [because the person is idle]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
(Occurrence 0) the house leaks
(Some words not found in UHB: in,laziness(es) sinks_in the,rafter[s] and,in,lowering_of hands leaks the,house )
Here the roof is represented by the whole house. Alternate translation: [the roof leaks]
OET (OET-RV) With a lazy owner, the roof beams will sag.
⇔ ≈ Idle hands will result in a leaky house.
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.