2 A man to whom God hath │ one who has appointed to given riches, wealth, and │ him by the Almighty riches, honour, so that he wanteth │ possessions, and honour, and nothing for his soul of all │ there is nothing lacking to him that he desireth, yet God │ which he could possibly desire; giveth him not power to eat │ and yet the Almighty Himself thereof, but a stranger eateth │ does not allow him to have it: this _is_ vanity, and it │ any enjoyment of it; but _is_ an evil disease. │ some stranger or other enjoys │ it. This is an instance of │ evanescence, and an infirmity │ which is indeed an evil. (2) =A man= (איש, not אדם, for it is equivalent to our ‘one’ indefinitely), =which gives to him= (emphatic) =the Deity= (one to whom the Deity gives, that is) =riches, and possessions= (chapter v. 19), =and honour, and he is not lacking to his soul of all which he desires= (the expression is peculiar, and is designed to bring into prominence the fact that to this person nothing at all is lacking; as we say, ‘he wants for nothing’) =and not causes to him power=, does =the Deity to eat= (in the usual sense of ‘enjoy’ or ‘use’) =from it, for a man= (again איש, ‘one’), =a stranger, eats it= (equivalent to ‘some stranger or another really enjoys it’). =This= is =vanity= and =sickness=, which =is an evil=, (indeed) =it is.= 3 ¶ If a man beget an │ Suppose one were to beget a hundred _children_, and live │ hundred children, and he should many years, so that the days │ have many years, yes, many of his years be many, and his │ indeed may be the days of his soul be not filled with good, │ years, and his soul not and also _that_ he have no │ satisfied with good, and he burial; I say, _that_ an │ have no burial,――I should say, untimely birth _is_ better │ that better off than such an than he. │ one is an abortion.