Matthew Poole Commentary - Ecclesiastes 5:14 - 5:14

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Ecclesiastes 5:14 - 5:14


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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.