All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
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Gill's Exposition
All his days also he eateth in darkness,.... To all that has been said is added another evil, that attends such whose hearts are inordinately set on riches; that all their days, throughout the whole…
Barnes' Notes
Hath much sorrow ... - Rather, is very sad and hath pain and vexation.
Solomon had shown the vanity of pleasure, gaiety, and fine works, of honour, power, and royal dignity; and there is many a covetous worldling that will agree with him, and speak as slightly as he does…
Cambridge Bible
he eateth in darkness The words are so natural a figure of a cheerless life with no "sweetness and light" in it (comp. Mic 7:8), that there is something almost ludicrous in the prosaic literalism…
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