εἰς τετρημένον πίθον ἀντλεῖν → run water into a punctured pitcher, to the perforated jar bale water, labour in vain, labor in vain
from תָּמַם; completeness; figuratively, prosperity; usually (morally) innocence: full, integrity, perfect (perfection), simplicity, upright (uprightly, uprightness), at a venture. See תֻּמִּים.