diff --git a/ecc/02/02.md b/ecc/02/02.md
index 35201b9fb8..bc2c5b46a8 100644
--- a/ecc/02/02.md
+++ b/ecc/02/02.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # I said about laughter, "It is crazy,"
 
-The direct quotation can be translated as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "I said that it is crazy to laugh at things" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]])
+The direct quotation can be translated as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "I said that laughter is crazy" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]])
+
+# laughter
+
+If your language has a special word for laughter about meaningless things, you might want to use it here.
 
 # What use is it?
 
diff --git a/ecc/02/11.md b/ecc/02/11.md
index a7313f389b..d1354b2500 100644
--- a/ecc/02/11.md
+++ b/ecc/02/11.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 Here the author refers to himself by his "hands." Alternate translation: "all that I had accomplished" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
 
+# the labor that I had done
+
+"the hard work that I had done"
+
 # like chasing the wind
 
 The author says that everything that people do is as useless as if they were trying to control the wind. See how you translated this in [Ecclesiastes 1:14](../01/14.md). Alternate translation: "are as useless as trying to control the wind" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
diff --git a/ecc/02/13.md b/ecc/02/13.md
index 08a3fb08c1..783b918651 100644
--- a/ecc/02/13.md
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# wisdom has advantages over folly, just as light is better than darkness
+# wisdom has advantages over folly, just as light is more profitable than darkness
 
-This speaks of how wisdom is better than folly by comparing it to how light is better than darkness. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
+This speaks of how wisdom is better than folly by comparing it to how light makes life better for people than darkness does. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
 
diff --git a/ecc/03/01.md b/ecc/03/01.md
index 6eeea00391..68caec06a0 100644
--- a/ecc/03/01.md
+++ b/ecc/03/01.md
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 The writer uses merisms to describe various aspects of life from one extreme to the other. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-merism]])
 
-# For everything there is an appointed time, and a season for every purpose
+# every matter
 
-These two phrases mean basically the same thing and are combined for emphasis. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
+"every event" or "every activity" or "everything that can happen"
 
 # under heaven