Ecclesiastes 2:25
ContextNETBible | For no one 1 can eat and drink 2 or experience joy 3 apart from him. 4 |
NIV © biblegateway Ecc 2:25 |
for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? |
NASB © biblegateway Ecc 2:25 |
For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? |
NLT © biblegateway Ecc 2:25 |
For who can eat or enjoy anything apart from him? |
MSG © biblegateway Ecc 2:25 |
Whether we feast or fast, it's up to God. |
BBE © SABDAweb Ecc 2:25 |
Who may take food or have pleasure without him? |
NRSV © bibleoremus Ecc 2:25 |
for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? |
NKJV © biblegateway Ecc 2:25 |
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? |
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HEBREW |
NETBible | For no one 1 can eat and drink 2 or experience joy 3 apart from him. 4 |
NET Notes |
1 tn Heb “For who can…?” The rhetorical question is an example of negative affirmation, expecting a negative answer: “No one can!” (see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 949-51). 2 tn The phrase “and drink” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for stylistic harmonization with v. 24. 3 tn The verb II חוּשׁ (khush, “to enjoy”) is a hapax legomenon which BDB defines as “to feel; to enjoy [with the senses]” on the basis of the context, and the cognates: Arabic “to feel; to perceive [by senses]”; Aramaic חושׁ “to feel pain,” and New Hebrew חושׁ “to feel pain” (BDB 301 s.v. II חֹוּשׁ). HALOT relates the Hebrew root to Akkadian havavu “to be delighted with” (HALOT 300 s.v. II חושׁ 1). The Vulgate renders this term as “to enjoy.” The Greek versions (LXX, Theodotion) and the Syriac Peshitta, however, did not understand this hapax; they rendered it as “to drink,” making some sense of the line by filling out the parallelism “to eat [and drink]” (e.g., Eccl 8:15). 4 tc The MT reads מִמֶּנִּי (mimmenni, “more than I”). However, an alternate textual tradition of מִמֶּנּוּ (mimmennu,“apart from him [= God]”) is preserved in several medieval Hebrew |