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 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V29
OET-LV Which again self_of_my it_has_sought and_not I_have_found a_man one of_a_thousand I_have_found and_a_woman among_all_of these not I_have_found.
OET (OET-RV) I continually tried to learn more, but I didn’t find it.
⇔ I found one special man out of a thousand
⇔ but I couldn’t find one such woman out of all of them.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
בִּקְשָׁ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י
sought self_of,my
Solomon is using my soul to represent his whole person. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression from your culture or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [I kept searching]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
וְלֹ֣א מָצָ֑אתִי
and=not found
Solomon is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [but I have not found what I was looking for]
OET-LV Which again self_of_my it_has_sought and_not I_have_found a_man one of_a_thousand I_have_found and_a_woman among_all_of these not I_have_found.
OET (OET-RV) I continually tried to learn more, but I didn’t find it.
⇔ I found one special man out of a thousand
⇔ but I couldn’t find one such woman out of all of them.
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.