All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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Gill's Exposition
All things are full of labour,.... Or "are laborious" (g); gotten by labour, and attended with fatigue and weariness; riches are got by labour, and those who load themselves with thick clay, as gold…
Barnes' Notes
All things ... utter it - This clause, as here translated, refers to the immensity of labor. Others translate it, “all words are full of labor; they make weary the hearers,” or “are feeble or…
To prove the vanity of all things under the sun, and their insufficiency to make us happy, Solomon here shows, 1. That the time of our enjoyment of these things is very short, and only while we…
Cambridge Bible
All things are full of labour The Hebrew dabarmay mean either "word" or "thing," and so the sentence admits equally of this or the nearly equivalent rendering, All things are weary with toil and All…
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