¹ tn Or “forever and ever.”

² tn Or “forever and ever.”

² tn Or “forever and ever.”

⁵ tn Heb “For who ever escaped…?”

³ tn Or, hyperbolically, “forever and ever.”

² tn Or “her smoke ascends forever and ever.”

¹ tn Or perhaps “when(ever) he turns,” referring to Moses.

¹ tn Heb “the Lord is king forever and ever.”

⁴ tn Heb “Will I ever see your holy temple again?” The rhetorical question expresses denial: Jonah despaired of ever seeing the temple again.

¹ tn Grk “the one who believes in me will not possibly thirst, ever.”

⁴ tn Grk “a colt tied there on which no one of men has ever sat.”

² tn Grk “a colt tied there on which no one of men has ever sat.”

³ tn Or “Do not ever put them in water,” i.e., “Do not even wash them.”

³ tn The perfect verb in this line has the nuance of the past tense to express the unique past—the uniqueness of the action is expressed with “ever” (“who has ever perished”).

⁵ tn The Hebrew term עוֹלָם (ʿolam) means “ever, forever, lasting, perpetual.” The covenant would extend to subsequent generations.

⁴ sn The statement no one can bear to describe it probably means that Qoheleth could have multiplied examples (beyond the sun, the wind, and the streams) of the endless cycle of futile events in nature. However, no tongue could ever tell, no eye could ever see, no ear could ever hear all the examples of this continual and futile activity.

² tn Or “[Ever since you came] out of Egypt”; cf. CEV “just as I have been since the time you were in Egypt.”

¹ tn Heb “for this is God, our God, forever and ever.” “This” might be paraphrased, “this protector described and praised in the preceding verses.”

² sn The place where the plant once grew will deny ever knowing it. Such is the completeness of the uprooting that there is not a trace left.

¹ tn Or “the Ancient One” (NAB, NRSV, NLT), although the traditional expression has been retained in the present translation because it is familiar to many readers (cf. TEV “One who had been living for ever”; CEV “the Eternal God”).