Ecclesiastes 6:1

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun,.... The Vulgate Latin version reads it, another evil; but wrongly, for the same is considered as before, the evil of covetousness; which is one of the…

Solomon had shown, in the close of the foregoing chapter, how good it is to make a comfortable use of the gifts of God's providence; now here he shows the evil of the contrary, having and not using,…

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun The picture is substantially the same as that of ch. Ecc 4:7-8. The repetition is characteristic, consciously or unconsciously, of the pessimism from…