5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
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To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, …
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. …
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-8)To prove the vanity of all things under the sun, and their insufficiency to make us happy, Solomon here shows, 1. That the time of our enjoyment of these things is very short, and only while we accomplish as a hireling his day . We continue in the world but for one generation, which is continually passing away to make room for another, and we are passing with it. Our worldly possessions we very la…
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