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Ecclesiastes 8:16 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 8 · verse 16
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)Ecclesiastes 8:16 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 8:16 in context
14There 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.
15Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
16When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- businessʻinyânadoH6045 →
- appliednâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- wisdomchokmâhwisdomH2451 →
- heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- nightlayilproperly, a twistH3915 →
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Wise and good men have, of old, been perplexed with this difficulty, how the prosperity of the wicked and the troubles of the righteous can be reconciled with the holiness and goodness of the God that governs the world. Concerning this Solomon here gives us his advice. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-17