What profit? or, as others render it, What remainder ? What real and abiding benefit hath a man by it? None at all. All is unprofitable, as to the attainment of that happiness which Solomon here is, and all men in the world are, inquiring after. His labour, Heb. his toilsome labour, both of body and mind, in the pursuit of riches, or pleasures, or other earthly things. Which he taketh under the sun; in all sublunary or worldly matters, which are usually transacted in the day time, or by the light of the sun. By this restriction he implies that that profit and happiness which in vain is sought for in this lower world, is really and only to be found in heavenly places and things.
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Ecclesiastes 1:3
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?