19 Every man also to whom │ And beside, should the Almighty God hath given riches and │ appoint to any individuals wealth, and hath given him │ of the human race, riches, power to eat thereof, and │ possessions, and the power to take his portion, and to │ to enjoy them, and so to make rejoice in his labour; this │ use of their possessions, and _is_ the gift of God. │ rejoice in their toil――this is │ simply a Divine appointment. (19.) =Moreover, all the man= (_i.e._ every one of the human race considered collectively and in the abstract) =which gives to him= (equivalent to one to whom) =God= (gives or appoints) =wealth and riches, and it is caused him to have power in order to eat= (which we have seen is used as the highest type of enjoyment in the active sense) =of it, and to take his portion= (for a man may possess without being able to eat or enjoy at all, hence the necessity for this clause in the course of the argument; נשא has the meaning to ‘lift up,’ ‘carry,’ or ‘bear’), =and to rejoice in his toil= (which――considering the exact meaning assigned in this book to עמל, the ‘care’ one takes in one’s labour――to rejoice in is to see it come to a successful end); =this same= (the Masorets put here a strong disjunctive accent) =a gift= of =God it is.= 20 ¹For he shall not much │ For the memory of the days of remember the days of his life; │ the past life is not of much because God answereth _him_ in │ importance; but the Almighty the joy of his heart. │ rather exercises men in their │ present emotions. ¹ _Or_, though _he give_ not │ much, _yet_ he remembereth,│ etc. │