(8.) =There is nothing= in (that is, There is not a single) =man caused to have power= (LXX. ἐξουσιάζων) =with the spirit= (the LXX. render with ἐν, ‘in’) =to the restraint of= (כלא‎――1 Samuel vi. 10; Jeremiah xxxii. 3――is used of restraint in prison) =with respect to the spirit= (‎‏את with the article, and the noun repeated, making it exceedingly emphatic, which the LXX. note by their customary σὺν: ‘to have any restraint with respect to that same spirit’ is the meaning) =and there is no power= (that is, ‘power to rule or direct’) =in the day of death, and there is no discharge= (occurs Psalms lxxviii. 49) =in the warfare, and not delivers= (this standing first is emphatic; it is equivalent to ‘but _this_ does not deliver’) even =impiety in respect of its lord= (or, as our idiom would put it, ‘but impiety will not deliver those who resort to it’). 9 All this have I seen, and │ With respect to all this I applied my heart unto every │ have observed, with regard to work that is done under the │ all the works which are done sun: _there is_ a time wherein │ in this work-day world――and one man ruleth over another to │ greatly am I impressed by it――a his own hurt. │ time when humanity has a power │ over itself to injure itself. (9.) =With respect to all this I have seen,= (_i.e._ ‘observed’), =and setting= myself (infinitive absolute. Zöckler says the infinitive absolute with copula prefixed indicates an action contemporaneous with the main verb; hence the LXX. render ἔδωκα ... εἰς), =with respect to my heart, to all the working which= (full relative) =is done= (niphal) =under the sun, the time which= (the LXX. apparently take no notice of עת, but render as if they had read את אשר; but if we take עת as in apposition to תהת ה״, and notice that אשר is repeated, we shall see that the sense is ‘I mean with regard to that time when,’ etc.) =rules= (or has power) =the man= (mankind generally) =by a man to an injury to him= (not exactly with the meaning of one man injuring another, but rather, that when humanity has any power over itself in the person of other men, it uses this power to injury for the most part, an instance of which follows). 10 And so I saw the wicked │ And on this wise: I have seen buried, who had come and gone │ the wicked honourably buried, from the place of the holy, │ who used to come and go from and they were forgotten in the │ the place of the holy, and were city where they had so done: │ praised in the city where they this _is_ also vanity. │ had done this: an instance this │ of the evanescent.