Apologetics Bible

Ecclesiastes 6:1

Hebrew

יֵשׁ רָעָה אֲשֶׁר רָאִיתִי תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ וְרַבָּה הִיא עַל־הָאָדָֽם׃

yesh-ra'ah-'asher-ra'iytiy-tachat-hashamesh-veravah-hiy'-'al-ha'adam

KJV: There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

AKJV: There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

ASV: There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

YLT: There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is great on man:

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

Hebrew

אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִתֶּן־לוֹ הָאֱלֹהִים עֹשֶׁר וּנְכָסִים וְכָבוֹד וְֽאֵינֶנּוּ חָסֵר לְנַפְשׁוֹ ׀ מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר־יִתְאַוֶּה וְלֹֽא־יַשְׁלִיטֶנּוּ הָֽאֱלֹהִים לֶאֱכֹל מִמֶּנּוּ כִּי אִישׁ נָכְרִי יֹֽאכֲלֶנּוּ זֶה הֶבֶל וָחֳלִי רָע הֽוּא׃

'iysh-'asher-yiten-lvo-ha'elohiym-'osher-vnekhasiym-vekhavvod-ve'eynenv-chaser-lenafeshvo- -mikhol-'asher-yite'aveh-velo'-yasheliytenv-ha'elohiym-le'ekhol-mimenv-khiy-'iysh-nakheriy-yo'khalenv-zeh-hevel-vacholiy-ra'-hv'

KJV: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

AKJV: A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. ¶

ASV: a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

YLT: A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it i...'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Hebrew

אִם־יוֹלִיד אִישׁ מֵאָה וְשָׁנִים רַבּוֹת יִֽחְיֶה וְרַב ׀ שֶׁיִּהְיוּ יְמֵֽי־שָׁנָיו וְנַפְשׁוֹ לֹא־תִשְׂבַּע מִן־הַטּוֹבָה וְגַם־קְבוּרָה לֹא־הָיְתָה לּוֹ אָמַרְתִּי טוֹב מִמֶּנּוּ הַנָּֽפֶל׃

'im-yvoliyd-'iysh-me'ah-veshaniym-ravvot-yicheyeh-verav- -sheyiheyv-yemey-shanayv-venafeshvo-lo'-tisheva'-min-hatvovah-vegam-qevvrah-lo'-hayetah-lvo-'amaretiy-tvov-mimenv-hanafel

KJV: If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

AKJV: If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

ASV: If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

YLT: If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he is the untimely birth.'

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

Hebrew

כִּֽי־בַהֶבֶל בָּא וּבַחֹשֶׁךְ יֵלֵךְ וּבַחֹשֶׁךְ שְׁמוֹ יְכֻסֶּֽה׃

khiy-vahevel-va'-vvachoshekhe-yelekhe-vvachoshekhe-shemvo-yekhuseh

KJV: For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

AKJV: For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

ASV: for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

YLT: For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Hebrew

גַּם־שֶׁמֶשׁ לֹא־רָאָה וְלֹא יָדָע נַחַת לָזֶה מִזֶּֽה׃

gam-shemesh-lo'-ra'ah-velo'-yada'-nachat-lazeh-mizeh

KJV: Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

AKJV: Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this has more rest than the other. ¶

ASV: moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

YLT: Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Hebrew

וְאִלּוּ חָיָה אֶלֶף שָׁנִים פַּעֲמַיִם וְטוֹבָה לֹא רָאָה הֲלֹא אֶל־מָקוֹם אֶחָד הַכֹּל הוֹלֵֽךְ׃

ve'ilv-chayah-'elef-shaniym-fa'amayim-vetvovah-lo'-ra'ah-halo'-'el-maqvom-'echad-hakhol-hvolekhe

KJV: Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

AKJV: Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

ASV: yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

YLT: And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

Hebrew

כָּל־עֲמַל הָאָדָם לְפִיהוּ וְגַם־הַנֶּפֶשׁ לֹא תִמָּלֵֽא׃

khal-'amal-ha'adam-lefiyhv-vegam-hanefesh-lo'-timale'

KJV: All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

AKJV: All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

ASV: All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

YLT: All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

Hebrew

כִּי מַה־יּוֹתֵר לֶחָכָם מִֽן־הַכְּסִיל מַה־לֶּעָנִי יוֹדֵעַ לַהֲלֹךְ נֶגֶד הַחַיִּֽים׃

khiy-mah-yvoter-lechakham-min-hakhesiyl-mah-le'aniy-yvode'a-lahalokhe-neged-hachayiym

KJV: For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

AKJV: For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knows to walk before the living? ¶

ASV: For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

YLT: For what advantage is to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Hebrew

טוֹב מַרְאֵה עֵינַיִם מֵֽהֲלָךְ־נָפֶשׁ גַּם־זֶה הֶבֶל וּרְעוּת רֽוּחַ׃

tvov-mare'eh-'eynayim-mehalakhe-nafesh-gam-zeh-hevel-vre'vt-rvcha

KJV: Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

AKJV: Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

ASV: Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

YLT: Better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Hebrew

מַה־שֶּֽׁהָיָה כְּבָר נִקְרָא שְׁמוֹ וְנוֹדָע אֲשֶׁר־הוּא אָדָם וְלֹא־יוּכַל לָדִין עִם שהתקיף שֶׁתַּקִּיף מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

mah-shehayah-khevar-niqera'-shemvo-venvoda'-'asher-hv'-'adam-velo'-yvkhal-ladiyn-'im-shhtqyf-shetaqiyf-mimenv

KJV: That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

AKJV: That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he. ¶

ASV: Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.

YLT: What is that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it is man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Hebrew

כִּי יֵשׁ־דְּבָרִים הַרְבֵּה מַרְבִּים הָבֶל מַה־יֹּתֵר לָאָדָֽם׃

khiy-yesh-devariym-hareveh-mareviym-havel-mah-yoter-la'adam

KJV: Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

AKJV: Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

ASV: Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

YLT: For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Hebrew

כִּי מִֽי־יוֹדֵעַ מַה־טּוֹב לָֽאָדָם בַּֽחַיִּים מִסְפַּר יְמֵי־חַיֵּי הֶבְלוֹ וְיַעֲשֵׂם כַּצֵּל אֲשֶׁר מִֽי־יַגִּיד לָֽאָדָם מַה־יִּהְיֶה אַחֲרָיו תַּחַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

khiy-miy-yvode'a-mah-tvov-la'adam-vachayiym-misefar-yemey-chayey-hevelvo-veya'ashem-khatzel-'asher-miy-yagiyd-la'adam-mah-yiheyeh-'acharayv-tachat-hashamesh

KJV: For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

AKJV: For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

ASV: For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

YLT: For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

Exposition: Ecclesiastes 6:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.

Apologetics Notes

• Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.

• Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.

• Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.