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13 lines
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# He will drop his ... he will cast off his
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These two lines give a similar image, which is repeated to emphasize that this will surely happen. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
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# He will drop his unripe grapes like a grapevine
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This speaks of the wicked man growing weak and dying as if he were a grapevine dropping unripe grapes. Alternate translation: "Just like a grapevine drops its unripe grapes, so the wicked man will drop his strength" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# he will cast off his flowers like the olive tree
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This speaks of the wicked man growing weak and dying as if he were were an olive tree dropping its flowers. Alternate translation: "just like an olive tree loses its flowers, so the wicked man will lose his strength" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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