Ecc 4:10 | KD | STEP | “For if they fall, the one can raise up his fellow: but woe to the one who falleth, and there is not a second there to lift him up.” Only the Targ., which Grätz follows, confounds אילו with אילוּ; it is equivalent to אוי לו, , or הוי לו, Eze 13:18. Haehhad is appos. connecting itself to the pronominal suff., as, e.g. , in a far more inappropriate manner, ; the prep. is not in appos. usually repeated, ; (exceptions: Ps. 18:51; ). Whether we translate שׁיּפּל by qui ceciderit ( ), or by quum ceciderit (Jerome), is all one. יקים is potential: it is possible and probable that it will be done, provided he is a טוב חבר, i.e. , a true friend ( Pirke aboth , ii. 13).

‏ Ecclesiastes 4:10

Ecc 4:10 “For if they fall, the one can raise up his fellow: but woe to the one who falleth, and there is not a second there to lift him up.” Only the Targ., which Grätz follows, confounds אילו ^{▼▼With Munach and Rebia in one word, which, according to the masora, occurs in only four other places. Vid., Mas. magna under this passage, and Mishpete hateamin 26 a.} with אילוּ; it is equivalent to אוי לו, Isa 3:9, or הוי לו, Eze 13:18. Haehhad is appos. connecting itself to the pronominal suff., as, e.g., in a far more inappropriate manner, Psa 86:2; the prep. is not in appos. usually repeated, Gen 2:19; Gen 9:4 (exceptions: Ps. 18:51; Psa 74:14). Whether we translate שׁיּפּל by qui ceciderit (Ecc 11:3), or by quum ceciderit (Jerome), is all one. יקים is potential: it is possible and probable that it will be done, provided he is a טוב חבר, i.e., a true friend (Pirke aboth, ii. 13).