But, or for, or or, or moreover; for this particle is so rendered by divers others, both here and in other places of Scripture.
Those riches perish: if they be kept, it is to the owner’s hurt; and if not, they are lost to his grief.
By evil travail; by some wicked practices, either his own, or of other men; or by some secret hand of God cursing all his enterprises.
There is nothing in his hand; either,
1. In the father’s power to leave to his son, for whose sake he underwent all those hard labours; which is a great aggravation of his grief and misery. Or,
2. In the son’s possession after his father’s death.