Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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Gill's Exposition
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity,.... As appears by all that has been said in this and the preceding chapters; such as wisdom and knowledge, wealth and riches, pleasure, power, and…
Barnes' Notes
Things - Namely, the various circumstances detailed in the foregoing chapters, from the Preacher’s personal experience, and his observation of other people, ending with the comprehensive declaration…
Here, 1. Solomon lays down his conclusion which he had undertaken to prove, as that which was fully confirmed by the foregoing discourse: There be many things that increase vanity; the life of man is…
Cambridge Bible
there be many things that increase vanity The Hebrew noun, as so often throughout the book, may stand either for thingsor words. In the former case, the maxim points to the pressure of affairs, what…
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