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Forכִּיallכָלhis daysיָמָיוare pains,מַכְאֹבִיםandוָhis occupationעִנְיָנוֹis vexation;כַעַסevenגַּםat nightבַּלַּיְלָהhis heartלִבּוֹdoes notלֹאlie down.שָׁכַבThis tooגַּם זֶהisהוּאvapor.הֶבֶל
Ecclesiastes 2:23
Study it in the app“For all his days are pains, and his occupation is vexation; even at night his heart does not lie down. This too is vapor.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ecclesiastes 2:23, word by word
- his daysיָמָיyamay
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yamay” appears- are painsמַכְאֹבִיםmachovim
pain
Pain, suffering.
Where else “machovim” appears- his occupationעִנְיָנinyan
task, business
Occupation, task; an affair or business that keeps someone busy.
Where else “inyan” appears- is vexationכַעַסchaas
grief
Bitter pain one carries inside.
Where else “chaas” appears- at nightלַּיְלָהlayla
night
Night.
Where else “layla” appears- his heartלִבּlib
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “lib” appears- lie downשָׁכַבshachav
lie down
To lie down to sleep or rest.
Where else “shachav” appears- vaporהֶבֶלhevel
vapor
A breath that passes and does not last; that brief is everything.
Where else “hevel” appears
The context
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?
23 · This verse (above)
24There is no good in the man that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his toil. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of Elohim.