Ecclesiastes 4:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Again I considered all travail Hebrew כל עמל, all the labour, toil, or trouble, which men undertake or undergo; and every right work All the worthy designs of virtuous men; that for this a man is envied of his neighbour Instead of that honour and recompense which he deserves, he meets with nothing but envy, and obloquy, and many evil fruits thereof.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.