Adam Clarke Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:16

Adam Clarke Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:16 - 4:16

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:16 - 4:16

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:5 - 4:5
4:6 - 4:6
4:8 - 4:8
4:9 - 4:9
4:13 - 4:13
4:14 - 4:14
4:15 - 4:15
4:16 - 4:16

There is no end of all the people - This is supposed to refer to the multitudes of people who hail the advent and accession of a new sovereign; for, as Suetonius remarks, A plerisque adorari solem orientem, “Most people adore the rising sun.” But when the new king becomes old, very few regard him; and perhaps he lives long enough to be as much despised by the very persons who before were ready to worship him. This is also a miserable vanity. Thus the blooming heir: -

“Shall feel the sad reverse: honored awhile;

Then, like his sire, contemn’d, abhorr’d, forgot.”

C.