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Ecc_3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Ver. 10. I have seen the travail that God, &c.] Not fortune, but Providence ordereth all cross occurrences; "a wheel" there is "within a wheel"; {Eze_1:1-28} then when men may think things run on wheels, at sixes and sevens, as they say. "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God." {1Pe_5:6} His holy hand hath a special stroke in all our travails. He both ordaineth {Act_2:1-47} and ordereth all, {Gen_1:20} altering the property, {Rom_8:28} and disposing them to good, raising profit from all. Thus men afflicted Job for covetousness, the devil for malice, {Ecc_1:15-16} God, for trial and exercise of his graces. "To be exercised therein," saith the text, or, as the word signifieth, to be "humbled therewith," to "hide pride from man," {Job_33:17} to tame and take him a link lower. "Their hearts are brought down," saith the prophet; "they speak out of the ground," {Isa_29:4} that erst set their mouths against heaven, and said, "I am, and besides me there is none."