Ecclesiastes 5:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Ecclesiastes 5:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: …
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. …
1 Kings 17:12
And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
2 Kings 1:2
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

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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;…

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

(vv. 17)

17. eateth--appropriately put for “liveth” in general, as connected with Ec 5:11, 12, 18. darkness--opposed to “light (joy) of countenance” (Ec 8:1; Pr 16:15). wrath--fretfulness, literally, “His sorrow is much, and his infirmity (of body) and wrath.”