H3588A–כִּי–ki

When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”כִּ֤י ki “for”

Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

כִּי־ ki- “that”

A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:

כִּ֤י ki “that”

Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

כִּ֣י ki “for”

A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֣י ki “for”

A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.

כִּי־ ki- “that”

She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

כִּ֣י׀ ki “for”

Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

כִּי֩ ki “for”

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

כִּי־ ki- “if”

What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

כִּ֠י ki “for”

All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

כִּ֧י ki “for”

There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

כִּ֛י ki “that”

Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

כִּ֣י ki “for”

To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

כִּ֛י ki “that”