Ecclesiastes 2:25

Hasten. — Habakkuk 1:8.

More than I. — There is a various rendering, which has the authority of the LXX., and which has every appearance of being right: “without Him.”

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²⁵ For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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