Ecclesiastes 8:15

“And I praised joy, because there is no good for the human being under the sun except to eat and to drink and to rejoice, and this will accompany him in his toil through the days of his life which Elohim has given him under the sun.”

Ecclesiastes 8:15 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Ecclesiastes 8:15, word by word

praisedשִׁבַּחְתִּיshibachti

praise

To say aloud how great and good someone is, giving him honor.

Where else “shibachti” appears
joyשִּׂמְחָהsimcha

joy

Joy, gladness, celebration.

Where else “simcha” appears
goodטוֹבtov

good

What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.

Where else “tov” appears
for the human beingאָדָםadam

human being

All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.

Where else “adam” appears
the sunשֶּׁמֶשׁshemesh

sun

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 “shemesh” appears
to eatאֱכוֹלechol

eat

To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.

Where else “echol” appears
and to drinkשְׁתּוֹתshetot

drink

Drink.

Where else “shetot” appears
and to rejoiceשְׂמוֹחַsemoach

rejoice

To feel glad and show it, above all at the feast before YHWH.

Where else “semoach” appears
will accompany himיִלְוֶyilve

join

To join oneself to someone and be bound to him.

Where else “yilve” appears
in his toilעֲמָלamal

toil

Exhausting effort and what it earns.

Where else “amal” appears
through the daysיְמֵיyeme

time

Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.

Where else “yeme” appears
of his lifeחַיָּיchayay

life

The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.

Where else “chayay” appears
Elohimאֱלֹהִיםelohim

Elohim

The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.

Where else “elohim” appears
has given himנָתַןnatan

give

To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.

Where else “natan” appears

The context

14There is a vapor that is done on the earth, that there are righteous ones to whom it comes according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones to whom it comes according to the work of the righteous. I said that this too is vapor.

15 · This verse (above)

16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the occupation that is done on the earth — for neither by day nor by night does one see sleep with his eyes—

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