Ecclesiastes 8:14
“There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth,.... Transacted in this lower world under the sun, through the permission…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Which is done upon the earth - The instance of vanity, to which these words are applied, is the seeming inequality of…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Ecclesiastes 8:14-17
Wise and good men have, of old, been perplexed with this difficulty, how the prosperity of the wicked and the troubles…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
There is a vanity There is something almost painful in the iteration of the ever-recurring thought that after all there…
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