11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. …
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-22)Here, 1. Solomon lays down his conclusion which he had undertaken to prove, as that which was fully confirmed by the foregoing discourse: There be many things that increase vanity ; the life of man is vain, at the best, and there are abundance of accidents that concur to make it more so; even that which pretends to increase the vanity and make it more vexatious. 2. He draws some inferences from it…
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