--- title: Ecclesiastes 8:12 — because a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and prolongeth his days… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: because a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and prolongeth his days — though yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before Him; Who acts: sinner, I, evil. 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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 — sinner, I, evil — and what happens in the verse to evil, God, 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. אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֹטֶ֗א עֹשֶׂ֥ה רָ֛ע מְאַ֖ת וּמַאֲרִ֣יךְ ל֑וֹ כִּ֚י גַּם־יוֹדֵ֣עַ אָ֔נִי אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִהְיֶה־טּוֹב֙ לְיִרְאֵ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִֽירְא֖וּ מִלְּפָנָֽיו׃ [because a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and prolongeth his days — though yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before Him;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.164/) ## 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:154 # text = אֲשֶׁ֣ר חֹטֶ֗א עֹשֶׂ֥ה רָ֛ע מְאַ֖ת וּמַאֲרִ֣יךְ ל֑וֹ כִּ֚י גַּם־יוֹדֵ֣עַ אָ֔נִי אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִהְיֶה־טּוֹב֙ לְיִרְאֵ֣י הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִֽירְא֖וּ מִלְּפָנָֽיו׃ # verse = ECC.8.12 1 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 3 mark _ Gloss=that|Ref=ECC_8:12!1|MId=o210080120011|Strong=0834|Type=relative 2 חֹטֶ֗א חָטָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Gloss=a.sinner|Ref=ECC_8:12!2|MId=o210080120021|Strong=2398|Type=participle_active 3 עֹשֶׂ֥ה עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=[is].doing|Ref=ECC_8:12!3|MId=o210080120031|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:210080120021;A1:210080120041;|Type=participle_active 4 רָ֛ע רַע ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 obj _ Gloss=evil|Ref=ECC_8:12!4|MId=o210080120041|Strong=7451|Type=adjective 5 מְאַ֖ת מֵאָה NUM _ Number=Sing 3 advmod _ Gloss=a.hundred.[times]|Ref=ECC_8:12!5|MId=o210080120051|Strong=3967|Type=cardinal_number 6-7 וּמַאֲרִ֣יךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ECC_8:12!6|MId=o210080120061|Strong=2050b 7 מַאֲרִ֣יךְ אָרַךְ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing 3 conj _ Gloss=[he.is].prolonging|Ref=ECC_8:12!6|MId=o210080120062|Strong=0748|Frame=A0:210080120021;|Type=participle_active 8-9 ל֑וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 ל לְ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=(for|Ref=ECC_8:12!7|MId=o210080120071|Strong=3807a 9 ֑וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Gloss=himself|Ref=ECC_8:12!7|MId=o210080120072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 10 כִּ֚י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 12 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=ECC_8:12!8|MId=o210080120081|Strong=3588 11 גַּם־ גַּם ADV _ _ 12 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=ECC_8:12!9|MId=o210080120091|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation|SpaceAfter=No 12 יוֹדֵ֣עַ יָדַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 3 conj _ Gloss=[am].knowing|Ref=ECC_8:12!10|MId=o210080120101|Strong=3045|Frame=A0:210080120111;A1:210080120131;|Type=participle_active 13 אָ֔נִי אֲנִי PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ Gloss=I|Ref=ECC_8:12!11|MId=o210080120111|Strong=0589|Type=personal 14 אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 18 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=ECC_8:12!12|MId=o210080120121|Strong=0834|Type=relative 15 יִהְיֶה־ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 18 cop _ Gloss=it.will.belong|Ref=ECC_8:12!13|MId=o210080120131|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:210080120141;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 16 טּוֹב֙ טוֹב ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Gloss=good|Ref=ECC_8:12!14|MId=o210080120141|Strong=2896|Type=adjective 17-18 לְיִרְאֵ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=to.[those]|Ref=ECC_8:12!15|MId=o210080120151|Strong=3807a 18 יִרְאֵ֣י יָרֵא ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 acl:relcl _ Gloss=fearing|Ref=ECC_8:12!15|MId=o210080120152|Strong=3373|Type=adjective 19-20 הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=(of|Ref=ECC_8:12!16|MId=o210080120161|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=[the].God|Ref=ECC_8:12!16|MId=o210080120162|Strong=0430 21 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 22 mark _ Gloss=that|Ref=ECC_8:12!17|MId=o210080120171|Strong=0834|Type=relative 22 יִֽירְא֖וּ יָרֵא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 18 acl:relcl _ Gloss=they.fear|Ref=ECC_8:12!18|MId=o210080120181|Strong=3372|Frame=A0:210080120152;|Type=yiqtol 23-26 מִלְּפָנָֽיו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 25 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=ECC_8:12!19|MId=o210080120191|Strong=4480 24 לְּ לְ ADP _ _ 25 case _ Gloss=before|Ref=ECC_8:12!19|MId=o210080120192|Strong=3807a 25 פָנָֽי פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 22 obl _ Gloss=face|Ref=ECC_8:12!19|MId=o210080120193|Strong=6440 26 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ Gloss=him|Ref=ECC_8:12!19|MId=o210080120194|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 27 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 26 punct _ Ref=ECC_8:12!19 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | עֹשֶׂה *\[is\] doing* | participle active · qal | חֹטֶא *a sinner* | רָע *evil* | | | | מַאֲרִיךְ *\[he is\] prolonging* | participle active · hiphil | חֹטֶא *a sinner* | | | | | יוֹדֵעַ *\[am\] knowing* | participle active · qal | אָנִי *I* | יִהְיֶה־ *it will belong* | | | | יִהְיֶה־ *it will belong* | yiqtol · qal | טּוֹב *good* | | | | | יִֽירְאוּ *they fear* | yiqtol · qal | יִרְאֵי *fearing* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## The Targum {#onkelos} וּבִזְמַן דְּחַיָּבָא יַעֲבֵיד בִּישׁ מְאָה שְׁנִין וּמִן קֳדָם יְיָ אִתְיְהִיבַת לֵיהּ אַרְכָּא בְּגִין דְּיָתוּב אֲרוּם אִתְגְּלֵי לֵיה בְּרוּחַ קוּדְשָׁא וִידָעִית אֲנָא דִּיהֵי טָב לְעַלְמָא דְּאָתֵי לְדַחֲלַיָּא דַּיָי דְּדַחֲלִין מִן קֳדָמוֹהִי וְעָבְדִין רְעוּתֵיהּ: 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. [because a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and prolongeth his days — though yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before Him;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/ECC.164/) **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:154`. - ← previous: [Ecclesiastes 8:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.11/) - next →: [Ecclesiastes 8:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.8.13/) - ↑ back to [Ecclesiastes 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC/8/)