Study it in the app“And who knows whether he will be wise or witless? Yet he will rule over all my toil at which I have toiled and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vapor.”
And whoוּמִיknowsיוֹדֵעַwhetherהֶhe will beיִהְיֶהwiseחָכָםorאוֹwitless?סָכָלYet he will ruleוְיִשְׁלַטover allבְּכָלmy toilעֲמָלִיat which I have toiledשֶׁעָמַלְתִּיand in which I have been wiseוְשֶׁחָכַמְתִּיunderתַּחַתthe sun.הַשָּׁמֶשׁThis tooגַּם זֶהis vapor.הָבֶל
know
To know something, realize.
Where else “yodea” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yihye” appearswise
Someone who knows how to live well, revering YHWH.
Where else “chacham” appearswitless, fool
Foolish; a fool who acts without sense.
Where else “sachal” appearsdominate, rule
To dominate, to have power over another.
Where else “yishlat” appearstoil
Exhausting effort and what it earns.
Where else “amali” appearstoil, labor
To toil, to work hard and wearily.
Where else “amalti” appearsbe wise
Be wise, act wisely; in Exodus 1:10, act shrewdly.
Where else “chachamti” 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” appearsvapor
A breath that passes and does not last; that brief is everything.
Where else “havel” appears18And I hated all my toil at which I toil under the sun, since I will leave it to the man who will be after me.
19 · This verse (above)
20And I turned around to make my heart despair over all the toil at which I had toiled under the sun.
