16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-17)Solomon had shown the vanity of pleasure, gaiety, and fine works, of honour, power, and royal dignity; and there is many a covetous worldling that will agree with him, and speak as slightly as he does of these things; but money, he thinks, is a substantial thing, and if he can but have enough of that he is happy. This is the mistake which Solomon attacks, and attempts to rectify, in these verses;…
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