2:22 What does a man acquire from all his labor
and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? 1
10:3 Even when a fool walks along the road he lacks sense, 2
and shows 3 everyone what a fool he is. 4
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).
2 tn Heb “he lacks his heart.”
3 tn Heb “he tells everyone.”
4 sn A fool’s lack of wisdom is obvious to everyone, even when he is engaged in the simple, ordinary actions of life.