(12.) =Sweet= (but the participial form of the noun must not be overlooked, nor the feminine termination, equivalent to a ‘sweetness,’) =is the sleep of the slave= (‘of the toiler,’ with the article), =if a little, or if the much he eats= (there is a peculiar force in contrasting ‘_the_ much,’ הרבה, with the article, with מעט without it; even if he should eat to _the much_ [_i.e._ as large a quantity as he can] it will do him no harm: no nightmare will trouble him who has earned his hearty meal by his hard work), =but the satisfaction= (as contrasted with הרבה) =to the enriched it is not that which is causing rest= (hiphil participle) =to him= (emphatic) =to sleep= (an equivoke here is to be found in השבע and לעשיר, remembering that שבע, ‘seven,’ is used so commonly for ‘completeness,’ and עשר, ‘ten,’ as ‘rich’ and ‘overflowing;’ seven with ten has a peculiar meaning in the symbolism of numbers). 13 There is a sore evil │ (v.) There is this evil _which_ I have seen under the │ infirmity which I have sun, _namely_, riches kept for │ observed in this work-day the owners thereof to their │ world: Riches kept by an hurt. │ owner to his own injury; (13.) =There is an evil= (abstract, a particular kind of evil), =a sickness= (another abstract) =I have seen under the sun――wealth keeping to= (_i.e._ being kept by) =its possessors to their hurt.= 14 But those riches perish │ for the wealth itself by evil travail: and he │ perishes in an uncertainty begetteth a son, and _there │ which is distressing: so is_ nothing in his hand. │ that when he begets an │ heir, he has in his hand │ just nothing at all. (14.) =And perishes, that riches, that same= (as we should say, ‘those very same riches’) =in an uncertainty= (בענין, another instance of this word; we see that in this case also [see chapter i. 13, references], the meaning ‘anxious uncertainty’ exactly suits the context), which is =an evil= (this anxious care, instead of doing any good, is but a simple mischief), =and he is caused to beget a son= (to whom, of course, he would have wished to bequeath his wealth), and there is =nothing in his hand at all= (which the LXX. render by a double negative, and hence we must render ‘and has in his hand even nothing at all’). 15 As he came forth of his │ For naked as when he came mother’s womb, naked shall he │ forth from the womb of return to go as he came, and │ his mother does he go out shall take nothing of his │ of the world again; and labour, which he may carry │ nothing whatever does he away in his hand. │ take from his care, which │ he can hold in his hand.