H0589–אֲנִי–a.ni

I spoke with my own heart, saying: 'Lo, I have gotten great wisdom, more also than all that were before me over Jerusalem'; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

אֲנִ֤י 'a.Ni “I”אֲנִ֗י 'a.Ni “I”

I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy pleasure'; and, behold, this also was vanity.

אֲנִי֙ 'a.Ni “I”

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

אֲנִ֗י 'a.Ni “I”

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness and folly; for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

אֲנִי֙ 'a.Ni “I”

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

אָ֔נִי 'A.ni “I”

The wise man, his eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness. And I also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

אָ֔נִי 'A.ni “I”

Then said I in my heart: 'As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?' Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

אֲנִ֜י 'a.Ni “I”אֲנִ֣י 'a.Ni “me”אֲנִ֖י 'a.Ni “I”

And I hated all my labour wherein I laboured under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

אֲנִי֙ 'a.Ni “I”שֶׁאֲנִ֥י (אֲנִ֥י) 'a.Ni “I”

Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour wherein I had laboured under the sun.

אֲנִ֖י 'a.Ni “I”

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy pleasure for his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

אָ֔נִי 'A.ni “I”

I said in my heart: 'The righteous and the wicked God will judge; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.'

אֲנִי֙ 'a.Ni “I”

I said in my heart: 'It is because of the sons of men, that God may sift them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.'

אֲנִי֙ 'a.Ni “I”

But I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.

אֲנִ֗י 'a.Ni “I”

Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive;

אֲנִ֛י 'a.Ni “I”

Again, I considered all labour and all excelling in work, that it is a man's rivalry with his neighbour. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

אֲנִ֜י 'a.Ni “I”

Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

אֲנִ֛י 'a.Ni “I”

There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches: 'for whom then do I labour, and bereave my soul of pleasure?' This also is vanity

אֲנִ֣י 'a.Ni “[am] I”

Behold that which I have seen: it is good, yea, it is comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy pleasure for all his labour, wherein he laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him; for this is his portion.

אָ֗נִי 'A.ni “I”

I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;

אֲנִ֤י 'a.Ni “I”

and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

אֲנִ֜י 'a.Ni “I”

I counsel thee: keep the king's command, and that in regard of the oath of God.

אֲנִי֙ 'a.Ni “I”

because a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and prolongeth his days--though yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before Him;

אָ֔נִי 'A.ni “I”

So I commended mirth, that a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry, and that this should accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

אֲנִי֙ 'a.Ni “I”

Then said I: 'Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.'

אָ֔נִי 'A.ni “I”

'I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

אֲנִי֙ 'a.Ni “I”