Study it in the app“I turned, I and my heart, to know and to explore and to seek wisdom and the reckoning, and to know the wickedness of senselessness and the witlessness of madness.”
I turned,סַבּוֹתִיIאֲנִיand my heart,וְלִבִּיto knowלָדַעַתand to exploreוְלָתוּרand to seekוּבַקֵּשׁwisdomחָכְמָהand the reckoning,וְחֶשְׁבּוֹןand to knowוְלָדַעַתthe wickednessרֶשַׁעof senselessnessכֶּסֶלand the witlessnessוְהַסִּכְלוּתof madness.הוֹלֵלוֹת
turn
To turn another way, or to pass to another owner: the face, a kingdom, a name.
Where else “saboti” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “libi” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “daat” appearssearch out
To search carefully, or to look ahead for a place for others.
Where else “tur” appearstry to get
To try to get something.
Where else “vakesh” appearswisdom
Knowing how to live well; it begins with revering YHWH.
Where else “chachma” appearssum, reckoning
Reckoning, reasoning; the result of adding things up.
Where else “cheshbon” appearswickedness
Wickedness: what is unjust and evil.
Where else “resha” appearsfolly
Lack of judgment, which leads to a foolish path.
Where else “kesel” appearswitlessness, folly
Folly, senseless behavior.
Where else “sichlut” appearsmadness
Madness, senseless folly.
Where else “holelot” appears24Far off is what has been, and deep, deep; who can find it?
25 · This verse (above)
26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is traps, and her heart nets, her hands bonds; the one who is good before Elohim will escape from her, but the sinner will be caught by her.
