H9023–הוּ–hu

Behold what I have seen good and comely: [ergänzt: it is] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith [ergänzt: man] laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.

עֲמָל֣וֹ׀ (וֹ) o “his”חַיָּ֛יו (ו) v “his”חֶלְקֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.

חֶלְק֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”בַּעֲמָל֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth [ergänzt: him] with the joy of his heart.

חַיָּ֑יו (ו) v “his”לִבּֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil.

לְנַפְשׁ֣וֹ׀ (וֹ) o “his”

If a man beget a hundred [ergänzt: sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.

שָׁנָ֗יו (ו) v “his”וְנַפְשׁוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “his”

For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;

שְׁמ֥וֹ (וֹ) o “its”

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

לְפִ֑יהוּ (הוּ) hu “his”

That which is hath already been named; and what man is, is known, and that he cannot contend with him that is mightier than he.

שְׁמ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “its”

For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?

הֶבְל֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: in that that is the end of all men, and the living taketh it to heart.

לִבּֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; better is a patient spirit than a proud spirit.

מֵֽרֵאשִׁית֑וֹ (וֹ) o “its”

All [ergänzt: this] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous [ergänzt: man] that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked [ergänzt: man] that prolongeth [ergänzt: his days] by his wickedness.

בְּצִדְק֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”בְּרָעָתֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the explanation of things? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.

פָּנָ֔יו (ו) v “his”פָּנָ֖יו (ו) v “his”

Be not hasty to go out of his sight; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatever pleaseth him,

מִפָּנָיו֙ (ו֙) v “him”

There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

בְּעָלָֽיו׃ (ו) v “its”

Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his [ergänzt: days], yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, because they fear before him;

מִלְּפָנָֽיו׃ (ו) v “him”

And I commended mirth, because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry; for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.

בַעֲמָל֗וֹ (וֹ) o “his”חַיָּ֛יו (ו) v “his”

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),

בְּעֵינָ֖יו (ו) v “his”

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

עִתּ֗וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.

בְּחָכְמָת֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

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

וּדְבָרָ֖יו (ו) v “his”

The heart of a wise [ergänzt: man] is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

לִֽימִינ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”לִשְׂמֹאלֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his sense faileth [ergänzt: him], and he saith to every one [ergänzt: that] he is a fool.

לִבּ֣וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

פִ֖יהוּ (הוּ) hu “his”פִּ֔יהוּ (הוּ) hu “his”

they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)

עוֹלָמ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “its”