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Ecclesiastes 2:25

For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

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כִּ֣יkiassuredכִּיconjunction — “assured”H3588(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexedand, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though, + til…מִ֥יmiwhoמִיparticle, interrogative — “who”H4310who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffixany (man), [idiom] he, [idiom] him, [phrase] O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), [phrase] would to God.יֹאכַ֛לyokhaleatאָכַלverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “eat”, an unfinished actionH398to eat (literally or figuratively)[idiom] at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, [idiom] freely, [idiom] in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, [idiom] quite.וּמִ֥יumiand whoמִיconjunction, particle, interrogative — “and who”H4310who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffixany (man), [idiom] he, [idiom] him, [phrase] O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), [phrase] would to God.יָח֖וּשׁyachushhasteחוּשׁverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “haste”, an unfinished actionH2363to hurry; figuratively, to be eager with excitement or enjoyment(make) haste(-n), ready.ח֥וּץchutsabroadחוּץnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “abroad”, the ordinary formH2351properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoorsabroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.מִמֶּֽנִּיmimenifromמִןpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “from”H4480properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many sensesabove, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, [idiom] neither, [idiom] nor, (out) of, over, since, [idiom] then, through, [idiom] whether, with.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

For who will eat, or who will enjoy, if not I?

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American Standard Version (1901)

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

Young’s Literal Translation

For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

World English Bible

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

Darby Translation

For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?

Douay-Rheims

Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

For who will eat, or who will enjoy, if not I?

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

For who shall eat, or who shall drink, without him?

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ὅτι τίς φάγεται καὶ τίς πίεται πάρεξ αὐτοῦ;