Discovery BoxEcclesiastes 2:10 
Context2:10 I did not restrain myself from getting whatever I wanted; 1
I did not deny myself anything that would bring me pleasure. 2
So all my accomplishments gave me joy; 3
this was my reward for all my effort. 4
Ecclesiastes 3:14
Context3:14 I also know that whatever God does will endure forever;
nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it.
God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.
Ecclesiastes 6:10
Context6:10 Whatever has happened was foreordained, 5
and what happens to a person 6 was also foreknown.
It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate
because God is more powerful than he is. 7
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Context9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, 8
do it with all your might,
because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, 9
the place where you will eventually go. 10
1 tn Heb “all which my eyes asked for, I did not withhold from them.”
2 tn Heb “I did not refuse my heart any pleasure.” The term לִבִּי (libbi, “my heart”) is a synecdoche of part (i.e., heart) for the whole (i.e., whole person); see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 648. The term is repeated twice in 2:10 for emphasis.
3 tn Heb “So my heart was joyful from all my toil.”
4 tn Heb “and this was my portion from all my toil.”
5 tn Heb “already its name was called.”
6 tn Or “and what a person (Heb “man”) is was foreknown.”
7 tn Heb “he cannot contend with the one who is more powerful than him.” The referent of the “the one who is more powerful than he is” (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The words “with God about his fate” have been added for clarity as well.
8 tn Heb “Whatever your hand finds to do.”
9 tn Heb “Sheol.”
10 tn Or “where you are about to go.”
