InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Ecc C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12
Ecc 1 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17
OET-LV If/because is_in_abundance_of wisdom abundance_of frustration and_someone_will_increase knowledge he_will_increase pain.
OET (OET-RV) because having much wisdom leads to much frustration
⇔ ≈ and anyone who’s adding knowledge is also adding pain.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
כִּ֛י
that/for/because/then/when
The word translated as for indicates that what follows is a reason for what came before. Use a connector in your language that makes it clear that what follows is a reason for what came before. Alternate translation: [because]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
חָכְמָ֖ה & כָּ֑עַס & דַּ֖עַת & מַכְאֽוֹב
wisdom & sorrow & knowledge & sorrow
If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of wisdom, anger, knowledge, and pain, you could express the same ideas in other ways. Alternate translation: [learning … anguish … what one knows … suffering]
OET-LV If/because is_in_abundance_of wisdom abundance_of frustration and_someone_will_increase knowledge he_will_increase pain.
OET (OET-RV) because having much wisdom leads to much frustration
⇔ ≈ and anyone who’s adding knowledge is also adding pain.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.