(16.) =For= (an expansion of the above argument, and a corroboration of the conclusion) =there is nothing= of =remembrance to a wise= (person or thing indefinitely) =with the fool= (but the hiphil form is to be noted, as also the article, the befooled, generically, for a wise action perishes from remembrance amidst the class of fools) =to the age= (_i.e._ so far as the indefinite future is concerned) =by which present= (_i.e._ in the present of that future age or æon it will so happen that) during =the days, the going ones= (meaning, of course, the days as they are passing, or, as we say, ‘in the lapse of time’) =the whole= (the whole of these wise lives and works) =is forgotten= (niphal, ‘becomes a forgotten thing’) =and how then dies the wise? with the fool= (_i.e._ both perish together). 17 Therefore I hated life; │ I was even disgusted with because the work that is │ respect to life itself: for wrought under the sun _is_ │ an evil to _me_ is the work grievous unto me: for all _is_ │ at which I toil in this hot vanity and vexation of spirit. │ work-day world, since the whole │ is evanescent, and vexation of │ spirit. (17.) =Then hated I, with respect to the lives= (an emphatic את, which the LXX. note by the adverbial σὺν, and meaning not exactly that he hated his own life, as that he felt a disgust with respect to life generally), =because an evil to me= (emphatic with על, giving the notion of pressing upon) =the work which I worked under the sun, because= (כי following in a sentence with כי at the commencement; this particle thus doubled I believe to be often nearly equivalent to our ‘for,’ ‘as,’) =the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.= 18 ¶ Yea, I hated all my │ I for my part was disgusted labour which I had taken under │ with all my toil that I had the sun: because I should │ moiled at it, in this work-day leave it unto the man that │ world, because I shall leave it shall be after me. │ to the man that succeeds me, (18.) =I hated then, I myself= (emphatic pronoun, because again we have Koheleth’s personal experience, as we should say, ‘I was disgusted’), =with respect to all my toil which I= (again strongly personal, meaning so far as it was _my_ toil) =had toiled at under the sun that I should leave it= (close relative qualifying the verb, and giving the idea that the grievance was that he would have to leave this work) =to a man= (_i.e._ some man as a human person) =which will be after me.=