H9002–/וְ–v

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

וְגֵ֨זֶל (וְ) ve. “and”וָצֶ֙דֶק֙ (וָ) va. “and”וּגְבֹהִ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

וְיִתְר֥וֹן (וְ) ve. “and”

He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

וּמִֽי־ (וּ) u. “and”

When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

וּמַה־ (וּ) u. “and”

The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַשָּׂבָע֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

וְאֵ֥ין (וְ) ve. “and”

As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

וּמְא֙וּמָה֙ (וּ) u. “and”

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמַה־ (וּ) u. “and”

All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

וְחָלְי֥וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וָקָֽצֶף׃ (וָ) va. “and”

This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

וְ֠לִשְׁתּוֹת (וְ֠) Ve. “and”וְלִרְא֨וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”

Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

וּנְכָסִ֜ים (וּ) u. “and”וְלָשֵׂ֣את (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִשְׂמֹ֖חַ (וְ) ve. “and”

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

וְרַבָּ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

וּנְכָסִ֨ים (וּ) u. “and”וְכָב֜וֹד (וְ) ve. “and”וְֽאֵינֶ֨נּוּ (וְֽ) ve. “and”וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וָחֳלִ֥י (וָ) vo. “and”

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

וְשָׁנִים֩ (וְ) ve. “and”וְרַ֣ב׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנַפְשׁוֹ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

וּבַחֹ֣שֶׁךְ (וּ) u. “and”וּבַחֹ֖שֶׁךְ (וּ) u. “and”

Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

וְאִלּ֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְטוֹבָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

וּרְע֥וּת (וּ) u. “and”

That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

וְנוֹדָ֖ע (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

וְיַעֲשֵׂ֣ם (וְ) ve. “and”

A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

וְי֣וֹם (וְ) ve. “and”

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

וְהַחַ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

וְלֵ֥ב (וְ) ve. “and”

Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”