8Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
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Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-12)Solomon is here drawing towards a close, and is loth to part till he has gained his point, and prevailed with his hearers, with his readers, to seek for that satisfaction in God only and in their duty to him which they can never find in the creature. I. He repeats his text (Eccl. 12:8), 1. As that which he had fully demonstrated the truth of, and so made good his undertaking in this sermon, wherei…
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