10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? …
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-10)The preacher here further shows the vanity and folly of heaping up worldly wealth and expecting happiness in it. I. How much soever we toil about the world, and get out of it, we can have for ourselves no more than a maintenance (Eccl. 6:7): All the labour of man is for his mouth , which craves it of him (Prov. 16:26); it is but food and raiment ; what is more others have, not we; it is all for th…
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