Ecclesiastes 2:25New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto], more than I?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— For who can eat, or who else can hasten [to it] more than I?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— For who could eat and who could enjoy, so well as I?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— For who can eate? or who else can hasten [hereunto] more then I?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— For who can eat or who can drink except he?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— For who shall eat, or who shall drink, without him?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto], more than I? |
For
x3588 (3588) Complementכִּיkiy{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
who
x4310 (4310) Complementמִיmiy{me}
An interrogitive pronoun of persons, as H4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.
can eat,
398 {0398} Primeאָכַל'akal{aw-kal'}
A primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
or who
x4310 (4310) Complementמִיmiy{me}
An interrogitive pronoun of persons, as H4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.
else can hasten
2363 {2363} Primeחוּשׁchuwsh{koosh}
A primitive root; to hurry; figuratively to be eager with excitement or enjoyment.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
[ hereunto], more
2351 {2351} Primeחוּץchuwts{khoots}
(Both forms feminine in the plural); from an unused root meaning to sever; properly separate by a wall, that is, outside, outdoors.
than
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
I? |
Ecclesiastes 2:25
_ _ hasten — after indulgences (Proverbs 7:23; Proverbs 19:2), eagerly pursue such enjoyments. None can compete with me in this. If I, then, with all my opportunities of enjoyment, failed utterly to obtain solid pleasure of my own making, apart from God, who else can? God mercifully spares His children the sad experiment which Solomon made, by denying them the goods which they often desire. He gives them the fruits of Solomon’s experience, without their paying the dear price at which Solomon bought it. |
Ecclesiastes 2:25
More than I — Therefore he could best tell whether they were able of themselves, without God's special gift, to yield a man content, in the enjoying of them. Who can pursue them with more diligence, obtain them with more readiness, or embrace them with more greediness? |
Ecclesiastes 2:25
For who can eat, or who else can hasten (q) [to it], more than I?
(q) Meaning, to pleasures. |
- who can:
Ecclesiastes 2:1-12 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity. ... And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.
1 Kings 4:21-24 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. ... For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.
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