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OET (OET-LV) is_good the_end_of a_matter than_beginning_of_its is_good a_person_long_of spirit than_proud_of spirit.
OET (OET-RV) Finishing something is better than starting it,
⇔ and being patient is better than being proud.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
(Occurrence 0) the people patient in spirit are better than the proud in spirit
(Some words not found in UHB: good end_of matter than,beginning_of,its good patient_of spirit than,proud_of spirit )
Here the word “spirit” refers to a person’s attitude. Alternate translation: “patient people are better than proud people” or “a patient attitude is better than a prideful attitude”
7:8 Finishing a project by exercising patience is better than starting a project with the pride of boastful words.
OET (OET-LV) is_good the_end_of a_matter than_beginning_of_its is_good a_person_long_of spirit than_proud_of spirit.
OET (OET-RV) Finishing something is better than starting it,
⇔ and being patient is better than being proud.
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.