All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
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Gill's Exposition
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity,.... Or, "all these things" (u). What goes before and follows after, the various changes men are subject unto, both good and bad; these he had made his…
The days of my vanity - This does not imply that those days of vanity were ended (see Ecc 1:12 note). The meaning may be best explained by a paraphrase. Solomon states how the wise man should regard…
Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the…
Cambridge Bible
there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness The writer looks back on what he calls "the days of his vanity," his fleeting and profitless life, and notes, as before in ch. Ecc 2:14; Ecc…
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