9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
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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