11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 11-12)The preacher here, for a further proof of the vanity of the world, and to convince us that all our works are in the hand of God , and not in our 4563 own hand, shows the uncertainty and contingency of future events, and how often they contradict the prospects we have of them. He had exhorted us (Eccl. 9:10) to do what we have to do with all our might ; but here he reminds us that, when we have don...
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