(10.) =Loving silver= (the Masorets point as a participle, but however correct this may be, the participial notion is in Ecclesiastes apparently not so prominent, as it is when the poel is used written full) =not satisfies= (_i.e._ as the nominative follows, ‘shall not be satisfied with’) =silver= (_silver_ is doubled here, and used of course in the sense of money――the meaning being that ‘a lover of money no _money_ ever satisfies’), =and who loving in a multitude= (_i.e._ setting his desires in a multitude of goods, or anything else) =not= (but the LXX. in place of לא possibly read לוֹ, ‘to him,’ and this makes far better and more pungent sense――‘_to him_’ emphatic will then be the meaning) =a revenue= (Numbers xviii. 30, Deuteronomy xxxiii. 14, Proverbs iii. 14, xviii. 20; or, still better, for the word is derived from the root בוא, ‘to come,’ ‘an income.’ Thus it is seen that the two clauses are aimed respectively against niggardliness and extravagance. The miser and the spendthrift both never have enough); =also this is vanity= (another instance of the transitory and evanescent, as indeed it is, because these riches look satisfactory and are not). 11 When goods increase, they │ (iii.) As property increases, are increased that eat them: │ so increases consumption and what good _is there_ to │ too; and what success then the owners thereof, saving the │ has ownership, but just the beholding _of them_ with their │ right of beholding it? eyes? │ (11.) =In the multitudes of the good= (an abstract, with the article, and hence the meaning is ‘In the very increase of the property itself, and as it increases,’ this being the meaning of the plural, which is distributive) =multiply the eatings of it= (or, for the ה may be considered paragogic, and so making, as it were, an abstract of the poel participle, ‘consumers’), =and what is the success= (כשרון, see ii. 21, references) =to the owners of it= (_i.e._ to ownership), =except seeing= (ראית, this the Masorets alter to ראות, but unnecessarily, for there is a slight difference in the sense here, which will account for the unusual grammatical form; a causative or hiphil notion is implied by it; hence the LXX. ἀρχὴ τοῦ ὁρᾶν, ‘the priority to see,’) =his eyes?= (_i.e._ each one with his eyes, singular following plural). 12 The sleep of a labouring │ (iv.) How sweet is the sleep man _is_ sweet, whether he │ of the slave, if a little, eat little or much: but the │ or if much he eats: but a abundance of the rich will not │ sufficiency to one who is suffer him to sleep. │ enriched――does not cause │ rest to him so that he │ sleeps.