Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

the text in these chapters is pretty bumpy, with big leaps of thought, without
so much an effort to fill in the in-between (BEIN HASHITIN), 
as if the author were in a hurry. here is my feeble effort to recover 
the in-between of his message.    

eat and drink

       [i.e. be happy because you are alive, which is] 

already 

       [a hugh priviledge. and since]

god 

       [gave you this priviledge, it is only because he must have] 

approved of your deeds.

        [so dont worry too much about deeds and their rewards].

under this interpretation, there is a fatalism here, and also godly 
decision [to give and deny life]. but the fatalism is not absolute 
because god somehow weighs people's deeds.


nir cohen