5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. …
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. …
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…
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