13And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
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I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth:(for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) …
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)Solomon, having asserted in general that all is vanity , and having given some general proofs of it, now takes the most effectual method to evince the truth of it, 1. By his own experience; he tried them all, and found them vanity. 2. By an induction of particulars; and here he begins with that which bids fairest of all to be the happiness of a reasonable creature, and that is knowledge and learni…
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