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OET (OET-LV) I_know if/because_that there_is_not good for_them if/because (if) to_rejoice and_to_do good in_life_of_his.
OET (OET-RV) I know that there’s nothing better for them
⇔
than being cheerful and doing good during their lives
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-exceptions
אֵ֥ין ט֖וֹב בָּ֑ם & אִם־לִשְׂמ֔וֹחַ וְלַעֲשׂ֥וֹת ט֖וֹב
not good for,them & if to,rejoice and,to,do good
If it would appear in your language that Solomon was making a statement and then contradicting it, you could reword this as a positive statement. Alternate translation: [the best thing for them is to rejoice and to do good]
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
בְּחַיָּֽיו
in,life_of,his
The pronoun his refers to each person among those Solomon has been discussing. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [their lives]
OET (OET-LV) I_know if/because_that there_is_not good for_them if/because (if) to_rejoice and_to_do good in_life_of_his.
OET (OET-RV) I know that there’s nothing better for them
⇔
than being cheerful and doing good during their lives
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.