25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
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The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. …
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. …
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-29)Solomon had hitherto been proving the vanity of the world and its utter insufficiency to make men happy; now here he comes to show the vileness of sin, and its certain tendency to make men miserable; and this, as the former, he proves from his own experience, and it was a dear-bought experience. He is here, more than any where in all this book, putting on the habit of a penitent. He reviews what h…
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