Ecclesiastes 2:20
“Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair,.... Of ever finding happiness in anything here below. He "turned…
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
I went about to cause my heart to despair The verb for despair is not a common one. Another form of it meets us in the…
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