(9.) =What profit= (something ‘remaining over and above the present,’ in the technical meaning of this word, see chapter i. 3, references.) =is the working= (an active participle with the article, and thus generic, working then as such) =in which= (full relative, and thus referring to the whole idea; we must render therefore ‘in respect of its _being_,’ which will be emphatic, as it is followed by the pronoun) =it is toil= (but we must remember that the exact meaning of this word is――see Genesis xli. 51, Isaiah liii. 11――the ‘anxiety,’ or ‘care,’ the labour produces. The question then is this, Is there any profit from working in respect of its being care and pains? and the answer is, No. The LXX. render somewhat _ad sensum_: Τίς περίσσεια τοῦ ποιοῦντος ἐν οἷς αὐτὸς μοχθεῖ, ‘What advantage of him that works in those things which _he_ toils?’ The Syriac, (‡ Syriac phrase) ‘What is the profit in the work in that he toils?’ but both make the meaning clear. This question is answered in the negative, the argument being elaborated with much care). 10 I have seen the travail, │ I have observed with regard which God hath given to the │ to the uncertainty which is sons of men to be exercised in │ appointed of God to the human it. │ race, to be made anxious │ thereby, (10.) =I have seen= (or ‘observed,’ as we should write, this formula introducing a matter which observation makes manifest), =with regard to the anxiety= (ענין, see chapter i. 13, references, the meaning previously assigned of ‘_anxious care_,’ or ‘_uncertainty_’ generally, the word being used to signify that special form of human misery which consists in the _uncertainty_ in which man lives; this emphatic את the LXX. notice and render by their adverbial σὺν, and to show us that the observation was made, not _of_ the uncertainty, but _with respect to_ it) =which has appointed= (because this is the principal idea) even =God= (the nominative follows, and is without the article, because it is God in his personal character who is here referred to. The article is used when the word occurs generically, as in the sense of ‘the Deity’ or ‘the Almighty,’――‘which it is God’s appointment’ then is the meaning) =to the sons of the man= (that is, the human race as children of Adam) =to be rendered uncertain therewith.= 11 He hath made every │ that the whole is suitable at _thing_ beautiful in his time: │ its proper time. Moreover, with also he hath set the world in │ regard to the future, that too their heart, so that no man │ is put into their desires, but can find out the work that God │ so that Man cannot find out the maketh from the beginning to │ working of the Almighty as _He_ the end. │ works it out from its beginning │ even to its end.