advances, hence Syriac is as strict as Greek or Latin in this respect. Whatever be the reason, however, the fact of such closer connexion is manifest by a careful collation of places). 14 I know that, whatsoever │ I am aware also that all God doeth, it shall be for │ which the Almighty effects ever: nothing can be put to │ must be done with regard to all it, nor anything taken from │ time, that to it nothing can be it: and God doeth _it_, that │ added, and that from it nothing _men_ should fear before him. │ either can be taken away, and │ that the Almighty acts that men │ may _fear_ in his presence; (14.) =I know how= (and as this is a repetition of the formula in verse 12, we may add the word ‘also’ to show that the argument is a continuation of the above) =all which does= (or is performed by) =the Deity= (with the article) =it is= (emphatic, followed by the verb substantive, and equivalent therefore to ‘it really is’) that which =will be= (and so the LXX. render) =to the age= (to the indefinite æon, or future that is, or rather, for both present and past are included in this word, to the whole course of present existing things’), =to it= (in the meaning of ‘over,’ or ‘above,’ as something dominating over, which is the signification of על) =there is nothing to be added= (niphal, which could be added) =and from it there is nothing to be diminished= (Exodus v. 8, Job xv. 4, 8, or restrained. The relevancy of this reasoning is now evident. Human labour and anxiety is vain, for the course of providence cannot be altered by it, and if it could, the alteration would be for the worse; what follows makes this more clear), =and the Deity works that they may fear= (contract relative, with the present as above. We have also the double jod; it occurs with the single jod at chapter viii. 12, and again with double jod at chapter xii. 5. There is no doubt a difference of meaning in these cases; see a remarkable illustration of this in regard to the verb יקץ in Judges xvi. 14 as compared with verse 20 in the same chapter) =from before him= (מלפניו, with both מ and ל, and hence emphatic, ‘in _his_ presence’). 15 That which hath been is │ that what has been is just the now; and that which is to be │ present, and whatever is to hath already been; and God │ be is no other than the same requireth ¹that which is past. │ present; and that the Almighty │ will investigate with regard to ¹ _Hebrew_ that which is │ the wronged. driven away. │