Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:4

Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:4 - 4:4

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:4 - 4:4

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4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:4 - 4:4
4:5 - 4:5
4:6 - 4:6
4:7 - 4:7
4:9 - 4:9
4:10 - 4:10
4:11 - 4:11
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:14 - 4:14
4:15 - 4:15

“And I saw all the labour and all the skill of business, that it is an envious surpassing of the one by the other: also this is vain and windy effort.” The הִיא refers to this exertion of vigorous effort and skill. The Graec. Venet., by rendering here and at Ecc 2:24 כִּשְׁרוֹן, by καθαρότης, betrays himself as a Jew. With כִּי, quod, that which forms the pred. follows the object. the min in mere'ehu is as in amatz min, Psa 18:18, and the like - the same as the compar.: aemulatio qua unus prae altero eminere studet. All this expenditure of strength and art has covetousness and envy, with which one seeks to surpass another, as its poisoned sting.