Rashi, on Eccl 3:18

“I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.”

“I said to myself when I saw all this. [that this is] because of the children of men who adopted the trait of haughtiness, to exert rulership and superiority over those smaller than they. [so that God] should clarify for them The Holy One, blessed be He [judges them], to let them know that their rulership is naught, and to show them and also the princes and the kings. that they are like beasts to themselves like other cattle and beasts they are to themselves.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.