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OET (OET-LV) one_who_conceals a_transgression is_seeking love and_repeats in/on/at/with_matter is_separating a_close_friend.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun
מְֽכַסֶּה־פֶּ֭שַׁע & וְשֹׁנֶ֥ה בְ֝דָבָ֗ר & אַלּֽוּף
forgives offense & and,repeats in/on/at/with,matter & friend
One who covers, a transgression, one who repeats, a matter, and a close friend represent these things and people in general, not specific things or people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use more natural expressions. Alternate translation: “Any person who covers any transgression … but any person who repeats any matter … close friends”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
מְֽכַסֶּה
forgives
Here Solomon speaks of forgiving someone for a transgression as if it were an object that someone covers. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “One who forgives”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
פֶּ֭שַׁע & אַהֲבָ֑ה
offense & love
See how you translated the abstract nouns transgression in [10:19](../10/19.md) and love in [10:12](../10/12.md).
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
מְבַקֵּ֣שׁ
seeks
See how you translated the same use of seeks in [11:27](../11/27.md).
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וְשֹׁנֶ֥ה בְ֝דָבָ֗ר
and,repeats in/on/at/with,matter
The phrase one who repeats a matter refers to someone who repeatedly speaks about a past situation in which that person or a friend was hurt or offended. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “but one who repeatedly mentions a past offense”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
מַפְרִ֥יד אַלּֽוּף
separates friend
See how you translated this phrase in [16:28](../16/28.md).
17:9 Maintaining a good relationship with another person means forgiving rather than dwelling on faults.
OET (OET-LV) one_who_conceals a_transgression is_seeking love and_repeats in/on/at/with_matter is_separating a_close_friend.
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.