Ecclesiastes 1:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

I gave my heart Which phrase denotes his serious and fixed purpose, and his great industry in it. To search out by wisdom To seek diligently and accurately, by the help of that wisdom wherewith God had endowed me. Concerning all things, &c. Concerning all the works of God and men in this lower world; the works of nature; the works of divine providence; and the works and depths of human policy. This sore travail This difficult and toilsome work of searching out these things, God hath inflicted as a just punishment upon man for his eating of the tree of knowledge. To be exercised therewith To employ themselves in the painful study of these things.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.