Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.This verse in the real world
In what words
- רְעוּתrᵉʻûwtha feeding upon, i.e. grasping after
- הֶבֶלhebelemptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as
- מַרְאֶהmarʼeha view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (e
- הָלַךְhâlakto walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
- טוֹבṭôwbgood (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine
- נֶפֶשׁnepheshproperly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in
- עַיִןʻayinan eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.