8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
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Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. …
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
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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