H9004–/כ–k

Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.

כַּ֭מַּיִם (כַּ֭) Ka. “like <the>”

The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.

כִּכְפִ֥יר (כִּ) ki “like”

She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.

כָּאֳנִיּ֣וֹת (כָּ) ko. “like”

Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

כִּֽיתְר֥וֹן (כִּֽ) ki “like”

Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

כְּמִקְרֵ֤ה (כְּ) ke. “like”

Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

כְּמ֥וֹת (כְּ) ke. “like”

Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “<just>”

When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ (כַּ) ka. “<just>”

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.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”כְּשֶׁבָּ֑א (כְּ) ke. “when”

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?

כַּצֵּ֑ל (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

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

כְק֤וֹל (כְ) khe. “like”

Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.

כְּהֶ֣חָכָ֔ם (כְּ) ke. “[is] like”

No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

כַּצֵּ֑ל (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה (כְּ) ke. “according to”כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה (כְּ) ke. “according to”

When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר (כַּ) ka. “<just>”

Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “[is] just”כַּטּוֹב֙ (כַּ) ka. “as the”כַּֽחֹטֶ֔א (כַּֽ) ka. “as the”כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

כַּדָּגִים֙ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”וְכַ֨צִּפֳּרִ֔ים (כַ֨) Kha “like <the>”כָּהֵ֗ם (כָּ) ka. “like <the>”כְּשֶׁתִּפּ֥וֹל (כְּ) ke. “when”

And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

כְּשֶׁסָּכָ֥ל (כְּ) ke. “like”

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:

כִּשְׁגָגָ֕ה (כִּ) ki “like”

I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.

כַּעֲבָדִ֖ים (כַּ) ka. “like”

As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר (כַּ) ka. “just”כַּעֲצָמִ֖ים (כַּ) ka. “like”

In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

כְּאֶחָ֖ד (כְּ) ke. “as”

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

כְּשֶׁהָיָ֑ה (כְּ) ke. “like”

The words of the wise are pointed, and sayings grouped together are like nails fixed with a hammer; they are given by one guide.

כַּדָּ֣רְבֹנ֔וֹת (כַּ) ka. “[are] like <the>”וּֽכְמַשְׂמְר֥וֹת (כְ) khe. “[are] like”