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**as** = like.
**who . . . ?** Supply the Ellipsis ( App-6 ), from the preceding line: "Who [is like him that] knoweth? "
**interpretation** = understanding.
**wisdom.** Hebrew. *chakmah.* See note on [Proverbs 8:1](../../../kjv/proverbs/8/1) , [Proverbs 8:2](../../../kjv/proverbs/8/2) .
**boldness** = sternness.

**I counsel thee:** or I say, then, in regard of-on account of.

**stand not** = do not take thy stand. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Syriac, and Vulg, read, "and stand not".

**power** = might, or control. Hebrew. *shilton.* Occurs only here and in [Ecclesiastes 8:8](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/8/8) .

**feel** = know.
**evil** = calamity. Hebrew. *ra'a'.*
**time and judgment** = a time, yea, a judgment time. Figure of speech *Hendiadys.* App-6 .

**purpose.** See note on [Ecclesiastes 3:1](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/3/1) .
**there is** = there exists. Hebrew. *yesh.*
**therefore the misery** = when the evil.
**great** = heavy.

**the spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 . Some render "wind" and refer to [Ecclesiastes 11:5](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/11/5) .[Proverbs 8:30](../../../kjv/proverbs/8/30) , [Proverbs 8:4](../../../kjv/proverbs/8/4) .
**discharge in that war** = no furlough in the battle [of life].
**wickedness.** Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 . Perhaps here = cunning: no cunning will save the wicked.
**those that are given to it** = its possessors.

**under the sun.** See note on [Ecclesiastes 1:3](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/1/3) .
**there is a time wherein** = sometimes.

**I saw** = I have seen.
**the wicked** = lawless men (plural) Hebrew. *rasha'.* App-44 .
**come and gone.** Supply the complex Figure of speech *Ellipsis* ( App-6 ), "I have seen wicked men come [to the grave; and righteous men] depart [in death, [Genesis 15:2](../../../kjv/genesis/15/2) ] from the place of the holy, and be forgotten", &c.

**days.** Supply the Ellipsis by "evil-doing".
**God** . Hebrew. *Elohim.* (with Art.) = the [true] God: the Deity.

**upon the earth.** See note on [Ecclesiastes 5:2](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/5/2) .
**just** = righteous.

**business** = travail.
**for also there is, &c.** = how that one doth not see sleep with his eyes by day or by night. Figure of speech *Catachresis* ( App-6 ).

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