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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:14 - 3:14
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(1Sa 3:12; 2Sa 23:5; Psa 89:34; Mat 24:35; Jam 1:17).
for ever - as opposed to man’s perishing labors (Ecc 2:15-18).
any thing taken from it - opposed to man’s “crooked and wanting” works (Ecc 1:15; Ecc 7:13). The event of man’s labors depends wholly on God’s immutable purpose. Man’s part, therefore, is to do and enjoy every earthly thing in its proper season (Ecc 3:12, Ecc 3:13), not setting aside God’s order, but observing deep reverence towards God; for the mysteriousness and unchangeableness of God’s purposes are designed to lead “man to fear before Him.” Man knows not the event of each act: otherwise he would think himself independent of God.