Study it in the app“And I turned to all my works that my hands had done and to the toil at which I had toiled in doing them, and look, all was vapor and striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.”
And Iוּ אֲנִיturnedפָנִיתִיto allבְּכָלmy worksמַעֲשַׂיthatשֶׁmy handsיָדַיhad doneעָשׂוּand to the toilוּבֶעָמָלat which I had toiledשֶׁעָמַלְתִּיin doing them,לַעֲשׂוֹתand look,וְהִנֵּהallהַכֹּלwas vaporהֶבֶלand strivingוּרְעוּתafter wind,רוּחַand there was noוְאֵיןprofitיִתְרוֹןunderתַּחַתthe sun.הַשָּׁמֶשׁ
turn
To turn toward something, someone or God.
Where else “faniti” appearswork
What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.
Where else “maasa” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yada” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asu” appearstoil
Exhausting effort and what it earns.
Where else “amal” appearstoil, labor
To toil, to work hard and wearily.
Where else “amalti” appearsvapor
A breath that passes and does not last; that brief is everything.
Where else “hevel” appearsstriving, chasing
Striving (from the root "to feed, shepherd"); in "chasing after wind": the effort to catch the wind.
Where else “reut” appearswind
Moving air; also the four quarters of the horizon.
Where else “ruach” appearsadvantage, gain
Advantage, profit: what is left over as gain.
Where else “yitron” appearssun
The star that gives light and heat by day and marks the day and the year; "under the sun" means in this world.
Where else “shamesh” appears10And whatever my eyes asked for I did not withhold from them; I did not keep back my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced from all my toil, and this was my portion from all my toil.
11 · This verse (above)
12And I turned to see wisdom and madness and witlessness; for what will the man who comes after the king do? What they have already done.
