Ecclesiastes 9:16

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Ecclesiastes 9:16 tn Or “power.”
2. Ecclesiastes 9:16 tn The participle form נִשְׁמָעִים (nishmaʿim, Niphal participle masculine plural from שָׁמַע, [shamaʿ] “to listen”) is used verbally to emphasize a continual, durative, gnomic action.
3. Ecclesiastes 9:16 tn Heb “his words are never listened to.”