The Meaning of Ecclesiastes 2:25 Explained

Ecclesiastes 2:25

KJV: For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

YLT: For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

Darby: For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?

ASV: For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

For who can eat,  or who else can hasten  [hereunto], more  than I? 

What does Ecclesiastes 2:25 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Ecclesiastes 2

1  the vanity of human courses is the work of pleasure
12  Though the wise be better than the fool, yet both have one event
18  The vanity of human labor, in leaving it they know not to whom
24  Nothing better than joy in our labor but that is God's gift

What do the individual words in Ecclesiastes 2:25 mean?

For who can eat or who can have enjoyment more than I
כִּ֣י מִ֥י יֹאכַ֛ל וּמִ֥י יָח֖וּשׁ ח֥וּץ מִמֶּֽנִּי

יֹאכַ֛ל  can  eat 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
וּמִ֥י  or  who 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Interrogative
Root: מִי  
Sense: who?, whose?, whom?, would that, whoever, whosoever.
יָח֖וּשׁ  can  have  enjoyment 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: חוּשׁ 
Sense: to haste, make haste, hurry.
ח֥וּץ  more 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: חוּץ  
Sense: outside, outward, street, the outside.
מִמֶּֽנִּי  than  I 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
Root: מִן 
Sense: from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than.

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