spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.
of man. Hebrew "of the sons of Adam". See notes on verses: Ecclesiastes 3:3; Ecclesiastes 3:10; Ecclesiastes 3:13; Ecclesiastes 1:13.
that goeth, &c. This is mentioned as one of the emendations of the Sopherim, though it is not included in the official lists (see App-33). The primitive Text read the letter He (= H) as an interrogative, "whether it go" (Compare Ecclesiastes 2:19; Ecclesiastes 6:12). The Chaldee, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Luther, Geneva, and Revised Version follow this reading. Another school took the He (= H) as the article pronoun and read "that goeth", &c, thus avoiding. supposed objection to its public reading. This was followed by Coverdale, the Bishops' Bible, and the Authorized Version. It is therefore the Figure of speech Erotesis (App-6), leaving the question to he answered at the end of the book (Ecclesiastes 12:7).