10 And whatsoever mine eyes │ and _all_ my eyes desired I desired I kept not from them, │ kept not from them, nor did I I withheld not my heart from │ deny my heart even one of _all_ any joy; for my heart rejoiced │ its joys: for this heart of in all my labour: and this was │ mine did rejoice in my toils, my portion of all my labour. │ and this was what I procured │ for _all_ my toil. (10.) =And all which asked mine eyes I did not restrain= (or keep back; see Genesis xxvii. 36, Numbers xi. 17, for the meaning, the only other instances where it occurs in Kal.) =from them= (emphatic), =I did not deny my heart from all rejoicing, for my heart rejoiced from all my toil= (_i.e._ there was a certain kind of pleasure derived from doing all this), =and this was my portion= (‘lot’ or ‘inheritance’ from all my toil; equal to our ‘this was all I obtained for my pains’). 11 Then I looked on all │ So I turned to look on _all_ the works that my hands had │ my work my hand had wrought, wrought, and on the labour │ and _all_ my toil which I that I had laboured to do: │ had moiled and done, and lo! and, behold, all _was_ vanity │ that ALL was――evanescent, and and vexation of spirit, and │ vexation of spirit, and nothing _there was_ no profit under │ of profit in this hot work-day the sun. │ world. (11.) =I turned myself= (פנה differs from סבב; the former is ‘to turn round in order to look,’ the latter is to ‘go round in order to do.’ The distinction is not without importance) =in all my works which worked my hands, and in my toil which I had toiled to work= (notice the occurrence of these words――work, work, toil, toil), =and behold= (a manifest and indisputable conclusion) =the whole was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was nothing of profit= (_i.e._ over and above the slight amount of present pleasure which he obtained) =under the sun.= (It is especially worthy of remark that while Koheleth found some small pleasure _in_ work, he found none _from_ it. Take, oh men, to your curse kindly, but a curse it is!) 12 ¶ And I turned myself to │ Then I turned myself again behold wisdom, and madness, │ to perceive wisdom in regard and folly: for what _can_ the │ to [its power of detecting] man _do_ that cometh after the │ _false_ hopes and _false_ king? ¹_even_ that which hath │ prudence, for how is any man been already done. │ to enter upon the results of │ that plan which he may have ¹ _Or_, in those things │ made beforehand? which have been already │ done. │