H5998–עָמַל–a.mal

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.

עָמְל֣וּ 'a.me.Lu “they have toiled”

A labouring man hath laboured for himself, For his mouth hath caused `him' to bend over it.

עָ֣מְלָה 'A.me.lah “it labors”

What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹ֖ל (יַּעֲמֹ֖ל) i.ya.'a.Mol “he toils”

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

שֶׁעָמַ֣לְתִּי (עָמַ֣לְתִּי) 'a.Mal.ti “I had toiled”

And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.

שֶֽׁעָמַ֥לְתִּי (עָמַ֥לְתִּי) 'a.Mal.ti “I have toiled”

And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

שֶׁעָמַ֖לְתִּי (עָמַ֖לְתִּי) 'a.Mal.ti “I have toiled”

For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

עָֽמַל־ 'a.mal- “he toiled”

And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?

שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹ֖ל (יַּעֲמֹ֖ל) ya.'a.Mol “he will toil”

Lo, that which I have seen: `It is' good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it `is' his portion.

שֶׁיַּעֲמֹ֣ל (יַּעֲמֹ֣ל) ya.'a.Mol “someone will toil”

then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

יַעֲמֹ֧ל ya.'a.Mol “he toils”

And Jehovah saith, `Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou didst not labour, neither didst thou nourish it, which a son of a night was, and a son of a night perished,

עָמַ֥לְתָּ 'a.Mal.ta “you had toiled”