Ecc 4:4 | KD | STEP | “And I saw all the labour and all the skill of business, that it is an envious surpassing of the one by the other: also this is vain and windy effort.” The היא refers to this exertion of vigorous effort and skill. The Graec. Venet., by rendering here and at כּשׁרון, by καθαρότης, betrays himself as a Jew. With כּי, quod , that which forms the pred. follows the object. the min in mere'ehu is as in amatz min , , and the like - the same as the compar.: aemulatio qua unus prae altero eminere studet . All this expenditure of strength and art has covetousness and envy, with which one seeks to surpass another, as its poisoned sting.

‏ Ecclesiastes 4:4

Ecc 4:4 “And I saw all the labour and all the skill of business, that it is an envious surpassing of the one by the other: also this is vain and windy effort.” The היא refers to this exertion of vigorous effort and skill. The Graec. Venet., by rendering here and at Ecc 2:24 כּשׁרון, by καθαρότης, betrays himself as a Jew. With כּי, quod, that which forms the pred. follows the object. the min in mere'ehu is as in amatz min, Psa 18:18, and the like - the same as the compar.: aemulatio qua unus prae altero eminere studet. All this expenditure of strength and art has covetousness and envy, with which one seeks to surpass another, as its poisoned sting.