For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
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Gill's Exposition
For all this I considered in mine heart,.... What goes before, in the latter end of the preceding chapter, concerning the various providences of God, the difficulty of finding out the reasons of them,…
Barnes' Notes
A good man’s trust in God is set forth as a counterpoise to our Ignorance of the ways of Providence. In the hand of God - Under His special protection (Deu 33:3 ff) as righteous, and under His…
It has been observed concerning those who have pretended to search for the philosophers' stone that, though they could never find what they sought for, yet in the search they have hit upon many other…
Cambridge Bible
For all this I considered in my heart More literally, For to all this I gave my heart to dig through, i.e.to explain and penetrate to the secret of the great enigma of life.
that the righteous, and…
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