Ecclesiastes 4

1 and to return: again I and to see: see [obj] all [the] oppression which to make: do underneath: under [the] sun and behold tears [the] oppression and nothing to/for them to be sorry: comfort and from hand: themselves to oppress them strength and nothing to/for them to be sorry: comfort

And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and behold, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors [is] power, and they have no comforter.

2 and to praise I [obj] [the] to die which/that already to die from [the] alive which they(masc.) alive still [to]

And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

3 and pleasant from two their [obj] which still not to be which not to see: see [obj] [the] deed [the] bad: evil which to make: do underneath: under [the] sun

And better than both of them [is] he who has not yet been, in that he has not seen the evil work that has been done under the sun.

4 and to see: see I [obj] all trouble and [obj] all skill [the] deed: work for he/she/it jealousy man: anyone from neighbor his also this vanity and longing spirit: breath

And I have seen all the labor, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbor. Even this [is] vanity and distress of spirit.

5 [the] fool to embrace [obj] hand his and to eat [obj] flesh his

The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:

6 pleasant fullness palm quietness from fullness palm trouble and longing spirit: breath

“Better [is] a handful [with] quietness, than two handfuls [with] labor and distress of spirit.”

7 and to return: again I and to see: see vanity underneath: under [the] sun

And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

8 there one and nothing second also son: child and brother: male-sibling nothing to/for him and nothing end to/for all trouble his also (eye his *Q(K)*) not to satisfy riches and to/for who? I laborious and to lack [obj] soul: myself my from welfare also this vanity and task bad: harmful he/she/it

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he has not, and there is no end to all his labor! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and [he does not say], “For whom am I laboring and bereaving my soul of good?” This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

9 pleasant [the] two from [the] one which there to/for them wages pleasant in/on/with trouble their

The two [are] better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labor.

10 that if: except if: except to fall: fall [the] one to arise: raise [obj] companion his and to/for woe! him [the] one which/that to fall: fall and nothing second to/for to arise: raise him

For if they fall, the one raises up his companion, but woe to the one who falls and there is not a second to raise him up!

11 also if to lie down: lay down two and to warm to/for them and to/for one how? to warm

Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how has one heat?

12 and if to prevail him [the] one [the] two to stand: stand before him and [the] thread [the] to do three not in/on/with haste to tear

And if the one strengthens himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not quickly broken.

13 pleasant youth poor and wise from king old and fool which not to know to/for to warn still

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who has not known to be warned anymore.

14 for from house: home [the] to bind to come out: come to/for to reign for also in/on/with royalty his to beget be poor

For from a house of prisoners he has come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he has been poor.

15 to see: see [obj] all [the] alive [the] to go: walk underneath: under [the] sun with [the] youth [the] second which to stand: stand underneath: instead him

I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who stands in his place;

16 nothing end to/for all [the] people to/for all which to be to/for face: before their also [the] last not to rejoice in/on/with him for also this vanity and striving spirit: breath

there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter do not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and distress of spirit.