Pengkhotbah 2:22

Painful Days and Restless Nights

2:22 What does a man acquire from all his labor

and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? ¹ 

Pengkhotbah 8:4

8:4 Surely the king’s authority ²  is absolute; ³ 

no one can say ⁴  to him, “What are you doing?”

[2:22]  ¹ tn Heb “under the sun.” The rhetorical question is an example of negative affirmation, expecting a negative answer: “Man acquires nothing” (see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 949-51).

[8:4]  ² tn Heb “word.”

[8:4]  ³ tn Heb “supreme.”

[8:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “Who can say…?”