I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
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Gill's Exposition
I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever,.... Which some, as Jarchi, understand of the works of creation, the heavens and the earth, which are however of long standing and duration; and…
Barnes' Notes
The last clause of this verse goes beyond a declaration of the fact of God’s government of the world Ecc 2:26 by adding the moral effect which that fact is calculated to produce on those who see it.…
We have seen what changes there are in the world, and must not expect to find the world more sure to us than it has been to others. Now here Solomon shows the hand of God in all those changes; it is…
Cambridge Bible
I know that, whatsoever God doeth We ask once again whether we are brought face to face with the thought of an iron destiny immutably fixing even the seeming accidents of life, and excluding man's…
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