This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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Gill's Exposition
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all,.... A very great evil, a very sore one, the worst of evils. Not an evil, as the providence of God is…
Barnes' Notes
Compare Ecc 8:11. The seeming indiscriminateness of the course of events tends to encourage evil-disposed men in their folly.
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
This is an evil among all things The pessimism of the thinker returns once more upon him, and he falls into the strain which we have heard before in chs. Ecc 2:14-16; Ecc 3:19; Ecc 5:15; Ecc 6:12. The…
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