Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair,.... Of ever finding happiness in anything here below. He "turned about" (y), as the word signifies dropped his severe studies of wisdom, and his…
Solomon having found that wisdom and folly agree in being subject to vanity, now contrasts one with the other Ecc 2:13. Both are brought under vanity by events Ecc 2:14 which come on the wise man and…
Business is a thing that wise men have pleasure in. They are in their element when they are in their business, and complain if they be out of business. They may sometimes be tired with their business,…
Cambridge Bible
I went about to cause my heart to despair The verb for despair is not a common one. Another form of it meets us in the emphatic cry, "There is no hope" of Jer 2:25; Jer 18:12. What he had felt had…
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