Ecclesiastes 2:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. ”

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Solomon having found that wisdom and folly agree in being subject to vanity, now contrasts one with the other Ecclesiastes 2:13 . Both are brought under vanity by events Ecclesiastes 2:14 which...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 1:12 to Ecclesiastes 2:26 . Qoheleth's Investigations. Assuming the character of Solomon the writer tells of his search for happiness under many forms. The pursuit of wisdom ( Eccle...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

travail . toil that brings about fatigue. The same word as in Ecclesiastes 1:13 ; Ecclesiastes 2:26 ; Ecclesiastes 3:10 ; Ecclesiastes 4:8 ; Ecclesiastes 5:14 . Not the same word as in Ecclesi...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. His days are sorrows - What a picture of human life where the heart is not fil...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And his travail, grief— And grief his employment. The second observation (the subject of which is riches, and which begins at the 18th verse), and the conclusion which flows from it, are so ble...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. All his days are sorrows and his travail grief. Same sentiment as Eccle...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Epicureanism and Wisdom alike Profitless 1-3. The writer makes enjoyment his quest, while aware that it is folly, and avoiding excess in a philosophic spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The fact that the wise man must surrender his acquisitions exhibits the inutility of the painful toil by which he has gained them.
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Turning from the pursuit of knowledge to the pathway of pleasure, the king had given himself up to mirth, seeking the false stimulus of wine. In this also he had been disappointed, finding that mirth...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool. (17) Therefore I h...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief ,.... All his days are full of sorrows, of a variety of them; and all his affairs and transactions of life are attended with grief and trouble;...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. Ver. 23. For all his days are sorrows, &c. ] All the days of the affl...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For what hath man “To what purpose,” a man may well say, “is all this toil of my body, and these solicitous thoughts, and this anguish of my mind? For all that a man can enjoy himself of the anxiou...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sources of Dissatisfaction; The Cheerful Use of Abundance. 17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For all his days are sorrows; or, though all his days were sorrows , i.e. full of sorrows. For this seems added to aggravate the evil mentioned in the foregoing verse. Though he took great and unw...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

What Use Our Efforts When We Must Leave All Behind To Those Who Will Misuse It? ( Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 ). Ecclesiastes 2:18-19 ‘And I hated all my effort with which I exerted myself under the s...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Ecclesiastes 2:17-23 THE CONFESSIONS OF A PLEASURE-SEEKER I. That his life’s promise has failed. The pleasure-seeker begins life with high hopes. The intoxi...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 1:12-2 I. As was natural in so wise a man, the Preacher turns first to wisdom. It is the wisdom that is born of wide and varied experience, not of abstract study. He acquaints himself...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 2:1 . Enjoy pleasure. The first doctrine of Epicurus, whose system is here rebutted. Acts 17:18 . Ecclesiastes 2:2 . I said of laughter, of all forced and frantic joy, it is mad...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth. The threefold view of human life Three views of human life are given in this remarkable chapter. I. The theatrical view of life ( Ecclesiastes 2:1-11...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 2:1-21 Section 2. Vanity of striving after pleasure and wealth. Ecclesiastes 2:1 Dissatisfied with the result of the pursuit of wisdom, Koheleth embarks on a...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Vanity of Labor in Itself
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 14:22 ; Daniel 6:18 ; Ecclesiastes 5:12 ; Esther 6:1 ; Genesis 47:9 ; Job 14:1 ; Job 5:7 ; Job 7:13 ; Job 7:14 ; Psalms 127:2 ; Psalms 32:4 ; Psalms 6:6 ; Psalms 6:7 ; Psalms 77:2-...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Vanity and Vexation under the Sun Ecclesiastes 2:11-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We shall introduce our study with quotations from our booklet on Ecclesiastes. Solomon had tried everything which his...
Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sorrows — Full of sorrows. Tho' he took great and unwearied pains all his days, yet the toils of his body were accompanied with vexation of mind. His heart — Because his sleep was broken with perpl...

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Ecclesiastes 2:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes