(10.) =What is that which will be? The present= (compare chapter i. 10, references) =is called its name= (to be called by its name is of course equivalent to our ‘accurately described’), =and it is known= (subjectively) =what it is= (emphatic), =even man= (but here without the article, an ‘instance’ then of ‘an Adam’ or human person), =and not able to decide with the mightier than he= (emphatic, לדין, Psalms l. 4, Isaiah iii. 13; this the Authorized Version renders rightly ‘to contend with,’ because דון has the meaning of ‘judge’ in the sense of ‘decide in a court of justice.’ שֶׁה֯תַּקִּיף occurs Job xiv. 20, ♦xv. 24, and chapter iv. 12, and as an adjective in the hiphil form here only. The Masorets notice that the ה is superfluous; but this could only have been because they did not see, as the LXX. did [who add the article τοῦ ἰσχυροῦ, ‘the strong’], that it means ‘the strong one’ generically; ‘what is stronger,’ as we say, or, noticing the hiphil form, ‘what is _made_ stronger,’ and which is clearly man’s destiny, decided by an overruling providence which he cannot escape). ♦ “xvi” replaced with “xv” 11 ¶ Seeing there be many │ For there are numberless things that increase vanity, │ reasons, and they only what _is_ man the better? │ increase the demonstration of │ evanescence, and that there │ could be no profit to humanity. (11.) =For there exist words= (reasonings, in the technical use of the word in this book) =the much= (_i.e._ to the full) =multiplying vanity, what is the profiting to humanity?= The meaning seems to be that there could be adduced a still greater number of reasons, all of which would show that human life was evanescent; but what is the profit, or use, of stating them to humanity, or bringing them forward? and as יותר naturally refers to דברים, the nearest nominative, it must be taken as a distributive singular; so that this interpretation is the simplest the grammar of the passage admits. 12 For who knoweth what _is_ │ For no one can tell what _is_ good for man in _this_ life, │ a real good to mankind in any ¹all the days of his vain life │ life: that life being a number which he spendeth as a shadow? │ of evanescent days, which for who can tell a man what │ he spends as a shadow, and shall be after him under the │ of which no one can tell to sun? │ any man what shall result │ to him――in this hot work-day ¹ _Hebrew_ the number of the │ world. days of the life of his │ vanity. │