Ecclesiastes 6:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

Ecclesiastes 6:1 —

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Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

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Avarice Beneficence Care Carnal Mindedness Covetousness Liberality Love Mammon

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-6)

Solomon had shown, in the close of the foregoing chapter, how good it is to make a comfortable use of the gifts of God’s providence; now here he shows the evil of the contrary, having and not using, gathering to lay up for I know not what contingent emergencies to come, not to lay out on the most urgent occasions present. This is an evil which Solomon himself saw under the sun, Eccl. 6:1. A great…

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

(vv. 1)

Ec 6:1-12. 1. common--or else more literally,--“great upon man,” falls heavily upon man.