2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
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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.
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? …
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Solomon had a large soul (1 Kgs. 4:29) and it appeared by this, among other things, that he had a very tender concern for the miserable part of mankind and took cognizance of the afflictions of the afflicted. He had taken the oppressors to task ( Eccl. 3:16 , 17 ) and put them in mind of the judgment to come, to be a curb to their insolence; now here he observes the oppressed. This he did, no doub…
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