Ecclesiastes 1:8
“All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
All things are full of labour,.... Or "are laborious" (g); gotten by labour, and attended with fatigue and weariness;…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
All things ... utter it - This clause, as here translated, refers to the immensity of labor. Others translate it, “all…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Ecclesiastes 1:4-8
To prove the vanity of all things under the sun, and their insufficiency to make us happy, Solomon here shows, 1. That…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
All things are full of labour The Hebrew dabarmay mean either "word" or "thing," and so the sentence admits equally of…
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