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Ecclesiastes 8:17 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 8 · verse 17
Then 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.Ecclesiastes 8:17 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 8:17 in context
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)
- beheldrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- cannotyâkôlto be able, literally or morallyH3201 →
- thoughshelon account of, whatsoever, whichsoeverH7945 →
- labourʻâmalto toilH5998 →
- workmaʻăsehan actionH4639 →
- doneʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
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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