Ecclesiastes 2:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

There is nothing better Or, Is there any thing better for a man? Which implies that there is nothing better, namely, for man's present comfort and satisfaction; than that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour That, studying first to free his mind from overmuch care and anxiety, he should, instead of heaping up perpetually for his heirs, allow himself a moderate and decent use of all the good things that he hath gotten by his honest labours; praising God for them, and cheerfully communicating them with his friends and neighbours, and to the relief of the necessitous poor and afflicted. This also Namely, that a man should thankfully take, and freely and cheerfully enjoy and communicate with others, the comforts which God gives him; I saw was from the hand of God Was a singular gift of God, and not to be procured by a man's own wisdom and diligence.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.