16There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-16)Solomon was himself a king, and therefore may be allowed to speak more freely than another concerning the vanity of kingly state and dignity, which he shows here to be an uncertain thing; he had before said so (Prov. 27:24; The crown doth not endure to every generation ), and his son found it so. Nothing is more slippery than the highest post of honour without wisdom and the people’s love. I. A ki…
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