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Ecc_2:21 For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.
Ver. 21. For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom.] This seemed to Solomon - whose own case it was like to be - so unworthy a thing, and such a vexation of spirit, that he can never say enough of it; but could find in his heart to cry out with the poet, Tñéò êáêïäáéìùí êáé ôåôñáêéò êáé ðåíôáêéò êáé äùäåêáêéò êáé ìõñéáêéò , I am thrice miserable, nay, ten times, nay, a hundred, nay, a thousand times so, that am born to be a provident and a perfect drudge of an idle drone, or perhaps of a mere stranger.
This is also vanity and a great evil.] Not privation of good only, a nothing; but a position of evil, a sad thing; an inconvenience not to be avoided by the most circumspect prudence; for it is written, He taketh {a} the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts {b} of the wise, their inward disceptations, their debating the matter with themselves, that they are vain. {1Co_3:19-20} The rich fool talked to himself, {c} as fools used to do, and set down how everything should be; {Luk_12:17} but it proved somewhat otherwise ere he was a day older.
{a} Dñáóóïìåíïò .
{b} äéáëïãéóìïõò .
{c} Déåëïãéæåôï .