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8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 6:8

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Matthew Henry

(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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