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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

the sense of examining something scientifically. The word “good” may be a noun meaning “good things” or an adjective. In this verse the idea can be conveyed by “see what good there is in it” or “see what pleasure has to offer.” But behold, this also was vanity: before telling us about his experiment, Qoheleth gives us the results of his test. As we have seen in 1:14, the Hebrew word hinneh “behold” is a multi-purpose word. Here it introduces the results of Qoheleth’s experiment. It can thus be rendered
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