Study it in the app“For there is a man whose toil is with wisdom and with knowledge and with skill, and to a man who has not toiled for it he will give it as his portion. This too is vapor and a great evil.”
Forכִּיthere isיֵשׁa manאָדָםwhose toil isשֶׁעֲמָלוֹwith wisdomבְּחָכְמָהand with knowledgeוּבְדַעַתand with skill,וּבְכִשְׁרוֹןand to a manוּלְאָדָםwhoשֶׁhas notלֹּאtoiledעָמַלfor itבּוֹhe will give itיִתְּנֶנּוּas his portion.חֶלְקוֹThis tooגַּם זֶהis vaporהֶבֶלand a great evil.וְרָעָה רַבָּה
anyone
A person; with "not", no one.
Where else “adam” appearstoil
Exhausting effort and what it earns.
Where else “amal” appearswisdom
Knowing how to live well; it begins with revering YHWH.
Where else “chachma” appearsknowledge
What one has learned; or a close bond with God.
Where else “daat” appearsskill
Ability to do things well.
Where else “chishron” appearstoil, labor
To toil, to work hard and wearily.
Where else “amal” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “yitne” appearsportion
What falls to one: "YHWH is what I receive".
Where else “chelk” appearsvapor
A breath that passes and does not last; that brief is everything.
Where else “hevel” appearsevil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raa” appearsgreat
Of great size or power; the one who stands out.
Where else “raba” appears20And I turned around to make my heart despair over all the toil at which I had toiled under the sun.
21 · This verse (above)
22For what is there for the man in all his toil and in the striving of his heart with which he toils under the sun?
