(13.) =And I set my heart= (gave great pains to, or thought much on, see i. 17, vii. 21, viii. 9, 10; Daniel x. 12; 1 Chronicles xxii. 19) =to inquiring= (דרש, being used of something lost or hidden, Genesis xxv. 22, Deuteronomy xxii. 2) =and to investigating= (תור, refers to spying out or searching, Numbers xiii. 15, chapter vii. 25) =in wisdom= (the Authorized Version considers that wisdom was the means by which inquiry was made) =concerning= (על, over) =all which= (equivalent to ‘all that which’) =is done= (but being niphal it has an objective sense, and includes what is suffered) =under the heavens= (this formula occurs chapter ii. 3, and iii. 1, and is of larger import than under the sun) =it is= (‘I mean that’ is the equivalent expression in English) =uncertainty= (ענין, this is another technical word, it occurs eight times, chapter i. 13, ii. 23, 26, iii. 10, iv. 8, v. 3 (4), viii. 16, and a careful comparison of places will show that the meaning is ‘uncertainty,’ accompanied with ‘anxiety’ as to what is to happen in the future) =which is an evil= (for it is without the article) =given= of =God= (without the article; because God is here used personally, it is nominative to נתן of course, but as the nominative follows the verb, this is the best way of rendering in this case) =to the sons of the Adam= (the ‘whole human race’ is the meaning of this form), that they may be =made anxious= (LXX. τοῦ περισπᾶσθαι) =therewith= (emphatic). 14 I have seen all the works │ I perceived with respect to that are done under the sun; │ all the actions whatsoever, in and, behold, all _is_ vanity │ so far as they are performed and vexation of spirit. │ within this work-day world, │ that they are certainly all of │ them (1.) evanescent, (2.) a │ vexation of spirit,