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