(17.) =Moreover, all his days in darkness= (for, of course, all this time he has never any idea which way he was really going, or what he is doing) =he eats= (or consumes), and =disappointment= is =the much= (or is multiplied), =and his sickness and wrath= (קצף is that kind of wrath which arises from anger with a person on account of something wrong. This miserable life is summed up, it appears, in four particulars――(1.) All his days he eats in darkness; (2.) the vexation of disappointment consumes him; (3.) he is sick, or rather, in this general sense, he is afflicted; (4.) he is angry, for those mistakes and disappointments.) 18 ¶ Behold _that_ which I │ Manifest, then, is that real have seen: ¹_it is_ good and │ good which I have observed, comely _for one_ to eat and to │ viz., that it is proper to eat, drink, and to enjoy the good │ and to drink, and so to see of all his labour that he │ good in all one’s toil which taketh under the sun ²all the │ one may toil in this hot days of his life, which God │ work-day world, as the tale of giveth him: for it _is_ his │ one’s daily life. For this is portion. │ what God gives, and this is │ one’s _own_ possession. ¹ _Hebrew_ there is a good │ which is comely, etc. │ │ ² _Hebrew_ the number of the │ days. │ (18.) =Behold= (for this introduces the manifest result of his observation) =that which I have seen=, even =I myself= (the result therefore of his own personal experience), a real =good; which also= (the full relative here has this meaning, because it is repeated) is =suitable to the eating= (_i.e._ active enjoyment), =to the drinking= (which is passive), =and to the seeing of goodness= (the _lamed_ is repeated before each full infinitive, and the abstract טובה follows, which therefore gives the meaning that what he had observed was, ‘that it was proper that one should eat, or one should drink, or should see good in,’ etc., _i.e._ any or all of these); =and= (repeated, meaning ‘_and also_’) =in all his toil which= (contracted relative) =he toils= over (toil is thus made very emphatic, the meaning is, ‘for which one so earnestly or unceasingly toils,’ for observe also, as no nominative is expressed, the verb is impersonal) =under the sun the number= (the root ספר has the meaning to count or enumerate, hence the idea ‘as one is counting one’s days’) of =the days of his life which gives to him= (emphatic) =the Deity= (nominative following verb, with the usual shade of meaning), =because it is his portion= (_i.e._ what belongs to him, but in the future he has no portion, _that_ no man has any right over).