--- title: Ecclesiastes 10:2 — A wise man's understanding is at his right hand; but a fool's unders… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: A wise man's understanding is at his right hand; but a fool's understanding at his left. Who acts: understanding, wise man, fool. Ecclesiastes 10:2 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Ecclesiastes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/) / [chapter 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/10/) / 10:2 # Ecclesiastes 10:2 קֹהֶלֶת **Who acts:** understanding, wise man, fool · **What happens:** be, understand · **To what, where:** right hand, left This is Ecclesiastes 10:2 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — understanding, wise man, fool — and what happens in the verse to right hand, left, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 12 chapters of Ecclesiastes on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. לֵ֤ב חָכָם֙ לִֽימִינ֔וֹ וְלֵ֥ב כְּסִ֖יל לִשְׂמֹאלֽוֹ׃ [A wise man's understanding is at his right hand; but a fool's understanding at his left.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.189/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:ECC:179 # text = לֵ֤ב חָכָם֙ לִֽימִינ֔וֹ וְלֵ֥ב כְּסִ֖יל לִשְׂמֹאלֽוֹ׃ # verse = ECC.10.2 1 לֵ֤ב לֵב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].heart|Ref=ECC_10:2!1|MId=o210100020011|Strong=3820 2 חָכָם֙ חָכָם ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.wise.[person]|Ref=ECC_10:2!2|MId=o210100020021|Strong=2450|Type=adjective 3-5 לִֽימִינ֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 לִֽ לְ ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=[is].to|Ref=ECC_10:2!3|MId=o210100020031|Strong=3807a 4 ימִינ יָמִין NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=his.right|Ref=ECC_10:2!3|MId=o210100020032|Strong=3225 5 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ Gloss=hand|Ref=ECC_10:2!3|MId=o210100020033|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 6-7 וְלֵ֥ב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and.[the]|Ref=ECC_10:2!4|MId=o210100020041|Strong=2050b 7 לֵ֥ב לֵב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=heart|Ref=ECC_10:2!4|MId=o210100020042|Strong=3820 8 כְּסִ֖יל כְּסִיל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.fool|Ref=ECC_10:2!5|MId=o210100020051|Strong=3684|Type=adjective 9-11 לִשְׂמֹאלֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=[is].to|Ref=ECC_10:2!6|MId=o210100020061|Strong=3807a 10 שְׂמֹאל שְׂמֹאל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 conj _ Gloss=his.left|Ref=ECC_10:2!6|MId=o210100020062|Strong=8040 11 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ Gloss=hand|Ref=ECC_10:2!6|MId=o210100020063|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 12 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 11 punct _ Ref=ECC_10:2!6 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no MACULA marks no verb frame in this verse. ## The Targum {#onkelos} לִבָּא דְּחַכִּימַיָא לְמִקְנֵי אוֹרַיְתָא דְּאִתְיְהִיבַת בְּיַד יַמִּינָא דַּיָי וְלִבָּא דְּשָׁטְיָא לְמִקְנֵי נִכְסִין דִכְסַף וּדְהַב: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [A wise man's understanding is at his right hand; but a fool's understanding at his left.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.189/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). Hebrew sentence `wlc:ECC:179`. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 10:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.1/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 10:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.3/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/10/)