Ecclesiastes 6:2
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction.

Young's Literal Translation
A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.

King James Bible
A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.

Hebrew
God
הָאֱלֹהִ֡ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

gives
יִתֶּן־ (yit·ten-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

a man
אִ֣ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

riches,
עֹשֶׁר֩ (‘ō·šer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6239: Wealth

wealth,
וּנְכָסִ֨ים (ū·nə·ḵā·sîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5233: Riches, treasures

and honor,
וְכָב֜וֹד (wə·ḵā·ḇō·wḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3519: Weight, splendor, copiousness

so that he lacks
חָסֵ֥ר (ḥā·sêr)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2638: Needy, lacking, in want of

nothing
וְֽאֵינֶ֨נּוּ (wə·’ê·nen·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb | third person masculine singular
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

his heart
לְנַפְשׁ֣וֹ ׀ (lə·nap̄·šōw)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

desires;
יִתְאַוֶּ֗ה (yiṯ·’aw·weh)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 183: To incline, desire

but God
הָֽאֱלֹהִים֙ (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

does not
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

allow
יַשְׁלִיטֶ֤נּוּ (yaš·lî·ṭen·nū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7980: To dominate, govern, to permit

him to enjoy them.
לֶאֱכֹ֣ל (le·’ĕ·ḵōl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 398: To eat

Instead,
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

a stranger
אִ֥ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

will enjoy them.
יֹֽאכֲלֶ֑נּוּ (yō·ḵă·len·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

This
זֶ֥ה (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

is futile
הֶ֛בֶל (he·ḇel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory

and a grievous
וָחֳלִ֥י (wā·ḥo·lî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2483: Malady, anxiety, calamity

evil.
רָ֖ע (rā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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