Ecclesiastes 1
1 word preacher son: child David king in/on/with Jerusalem
The words of the preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.
2 vanity vanity to say preacher vanity vanity [the] all vanity
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.
3 what? advantage to/for man in/on/with all trouble his which/that to toil underneath: under [the] sun
What profit hath a man of all his labor, which he taketh under the sun?
4 generation to go: went and generation to come (in): come and [the] land: country/planet to/for forever: enduring to stand: stand
[One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
5 and to rise [the] sun and to come (in): come [the] sun and to(wards) place his to long for to rise he/she/it there
The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
6 to go: walk to(wards) south and to turn: turn to(wards) north to turn: surround to turn: surround to go: walk [the] spirit: breath and upon around him to return: return [the] spirit: breath
The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about to the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits.
7 all [the] torrent: river to go: walk to(wards) [the] sea and [the] sea nothing he full to(wards) place which/that [the] torrent: river to go: walk there they(masc.) to return: return to/for to go: walk
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; to the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
8 all [the] word: thing weary not be able man: anyone to/for to speak: speak not to satisfy eye to/for to see: see and not to fill ear from to hear: hear
All things [are] full of labor; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 what? which/that to be he/she/it which/that to be and what? (which/that to make: do *L(abh)*) he/she/it which/that to make: do and nothing all new underneath: under [the] sun
The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.
10 there word: thing which/that to say to see: behold! this new he/she/it already to be to/for forever: antiquity which to be from to/for face: before our
Is there [any] thing of which it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 nothing memorial to/for first: previous and also to/for last which/that to be not to be to/for them memorial with which/that to be to/for last
[There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after.
12 I preacher to be king upon Israel in/on/with Jerusalem
I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 and to give: put [obj] heart my to/for to seek and to/for to spy in/on/with wisdom upon all which to make: do underneath: under [the] heaven he/she/it task bad: harmful to give: put God to/for son: child [the] man to/for be occupied in/on/with him
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this grievous labor hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised with it.
14 to see: see [obj] all [the] deed: work which/that to make: do underneath: under [the] sun and behold [the] all vanity and longing spirit: breath
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 to pervert not be able to/for be straight and deficiency not be able to/for to count
[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16 to speak: speak I with heart my to/for to say I behold to magnify and to add wisdom upon all which to be to/for face: before my upon Jerusalem and heart my to see: examine to multiply wisdom and knowledge
I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have come to great estate, and have gained more wisdom than all [they] that have been before me in Jerusalem: and my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
17 and to give: put [emph?] heart my to/for to know wisdom and to know madness and folly to know which/that also this he/she/it striving spirit: breath
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18 for in/on/with abundance wisdom many vexation and to add knowledge to add pain
For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
