(12.) =For also not knows= (it is the verb which is here negatived) =the man= (humanity) =his time= (with את, which the LXX. note by the article), =as fishes which may be caught= (contract relative and plural niphal) =in a net, the evil one= (an evil net), =and like also birds= when =caught in a snare= (notice the difference between שנאחזים, which is niphal participle plural, occurs Genesis xxii. 13, and האחזות, pual participle, ‘the fishes are _caught_, the birds are _held_’); =like them= _are_ =ensnared= (יוקשים, see Deuteronomy vii. 25) =the sons of the Adam to a time= (which is) =evil, as when it falls upon them suddenly.= (It would result from this reasoning that wisdom is of no use at all; but in order to meet this objection, Koheleth cites an instance where it was of great value.) 13 ¶ This wisdom have I seen │ Nevertheless, I have observed also under the sun, and it │ the following instance of _seemed_ great unto me: │ wisdom in this work-day world, │ and which appeared to me of │ great moment. (13.) =Moreover, this I have seen= (_i.e._ an instance of) =a wisdom under the sun= (_i.e._ in this world, where wisdom avails so little), =and great= (but the noun is an abstract, ‘of great value’ or importance, ‘a really great thing’) =is it with regard to me= (LXX., πρὸς, _i.e._ he considered that, notwithstanding the observation above, he ought to take it as of considerable account; here was an unexpected deliverance, by means of wisdom, from one of those snares, מצודים, spoken of above). 14 _There was_ a little │ There was a little city, and city, and few men within it; │ the men therein were a few; and and there came a great king │ there came a great king against against it, and besieged it, │ it, and invested it, and built and built great bulwarks │ a net-work [of fortifications] against it: │ around it. (14.) =A city small, and the men= (אנשים, ‘weak men’) =in it= (emphatic, ‘in that same’) =a few, and there came against it a king= (who was) =great, and he surrounded it, and built over against it networks very great ones;= 15 Now there was found in it │ Now there was found therein a poor wise man, and he by his │ a poor wise working man, and wisdom delivered the city; yet │ _he_ it was who saved the city no man remembered that same │ by his wisdom; yet men did poor man. │ not remember that same person │ because he was a poor working │ man.