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# the diligent
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This nominal adjective can be translated as a noun phrase. AT: "a diligent man" or "a man who works hard" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])
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# comes only to poverty
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The abstract noun "poverty" can be translated as an adjective. AT: "only becomes poor" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# Acquiring riches
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"Gaining wealth"
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# a lying tongue
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The tongue is a metonym for the words a person uses the tongue to speak. AT: "speaking lies" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# a fleeting vapor
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The writer likens the riches a person gains by lying to a mist that quickly goes away in the morning. AT: "a disappearing mist" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# a snare that kills
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The writer speaks of the riches that a person gains by lying as if it were the bait in a hunter's trap; the word "snare" is a metonym for the bait that attracts the animal into the snare. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/tongue]]