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OET (OET-RV) A good reputation is better than expensive perfume,
⇔ and the day you die is more important than the day of your birth.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
(Occurrence 0) A good name
(Some words not found in UHB: good name_of than,ointment good and,day_of the,death than,day_of birth,one's )
Here a person’s “name” is used to represent their reputation. Alternate translation: “A good reputation”
7:1 The effort to pursue luxuries such as costly perfume is better spent seeking a good reputation for wisdom and righteousness (Prov 22:1; 28:6).
• the day you die is better than the day you are born: There is a sense of relief when the troubles of life are over. The difficulties of life can make one look forward to the peace of death (Eccl 1:18; 2:22; 4:2-3; 12:1).
OET (OET-RV) A good reputation is better than expensive perfume,
⇔ and the day you die is more important than the day of your birth.
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.