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 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12
Ecc 7 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
בַֽחָכְמָ֑ה
by,wisdom
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of wisdom, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [by thinking wisely]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
רְחוֹקָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנִּי
far from,me
Here Solomon is speaking as if complete understanding were a physical object that was far away from him. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [was impossible for me]
Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns
וְהִ֖יא רְחוֹקָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנִּי
and=she far from,me
The pronoun it refers to true wisdom. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [true wisdom was far from me]
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.