I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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Gill's Exposition
I returned, and saw under the sun,.... The wise man returned to his former subject, concerning the same events happening to all sorts of persons, righteous and wicked, wise and unwise, Ecc 10:1; and…
Read these six verses connectedly, in order to arrive at the meaning of the writer; and compare Ecc 2:1-12. After the description Ecc 9:5-6 of the portionless condition of the dead, the next thought…
The preacher here, for a further proof of the vanity of the world, and to convince us that all our works are in the hand of God, and not in our own hand, shows the uncertainty and contingency of…
Cambridge Bible
that the race is not to the swift The sequence of thought is that while it is a man's wisdom to do the work which he finds ready to his hand, he must not reckon on immediate and visible results. The…
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