Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
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Barnes' Notes
Wisdom - As including both the powers of observation and judgment, and the knowledge acquired thereby (1Ki 3:28; 1Ki 4:29; 1Ki 10:8, ...). It increases by exercise. Here is noted its application to…
Solomon, having asserted in general that all is vanity, and having given some general proofs of it, now takes the most effectual method to evince the truth of it, 1. By his own experience; he tried…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
I gave my heart The phrase, so expressive of the spirit of an earnest seeker, is eminently characteristic of this book and meets us again in Ecc 1:17, chaps. Ecc 7:25; Ecc 8:9; Ecc 8:16. Like forms…
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