Ecclesiastes 2:19
“And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool?.... The king that should be after him, as the Targum, that…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870Ecclesiastes 2:12-26
Solomon having found that wisdom and folly agree in being subject to vanity, now contrasts one with the other Ecc 2:13.…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Ecclesiastes 2:17-26
Business is a thing that wise men have pleasure in. They are in their element when they are in their business, and…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man We note in this rather the utterance of a generalized experience than, as…
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