Ecclesiastes 1
1 word preacher son: child David king in/on/with Jerusalem
Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 vanity vanity to say preacher vanity vanity [the] all vanity
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities: the whole [is] vanity.
3 what? advantage to/for man in/on/with all trouble his which/that to toil underneath: under [the] sun
What advantage [is] to man by all his labor that he labors at 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
A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth is standing for all time.
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
Also, the sun has risen, and the sun has gone in, and to its place panting it is rising there.
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
Going to the south, and turning around to the north, turning around, turning around, the wind is going, and by its circuits the wind has returned.
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 streams are going to the sea, and the sea is not full; to a place to where the streams are going, there they are turning back to go.
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 these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor is the ear filled from 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
What [is] that which has been? It [is] that which is, and what [is] that which has been done? It [is] that which is done, and there is not an entirely 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
There is a thing of which [one] says: “See this, it [is] new!” Already it has been in the ages that were 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 not a remembrance of former [generations]; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.
12 I preacher to be king upon Israel in/on/with Jerusalem
I, a preacher, have been 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 have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that has been done under the heavens. It [is] a sad travail God has given to the sons of man to be humbled by 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 have been done under the sun, and behold, the whole [is] vanity and distress of spirit!
15 to pervert not be able to/for be straight and deficiency not be able to/for to count
A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to 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 spoke with my heart, saying, “I, behold, have magnified and added wisdom above everyone who has been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart has seen wisdom and knowledge abundantly.
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 give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this [is] distress of spirit;
18 for in/on/with abundance wisdom many vexation and to add knowledge to add pain
for in abundance of wisdom [is] abundance of sadness, and he who adds knowledge adds pain.”
