6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
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All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
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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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