Ecclesiastes 4:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:7 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 4:1
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Psalms 78:33
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

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Avarice Covetousness Cupidity Miser

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-12)

Here Solomon fastens upon another instance of the vanity of this world, that frequently the more men have of it the more they would have; and on this they are so intent that they have no enjoyment of what they have. Now Solomon here shows, I. That selfishness is the cause of this evil (Eccl. 4:7, 8): There is one alone, that minds none but himself, cares for nobody, but would, if he could, be plac…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. A vanity described in Ec 4:8.