Ecclesiastes 11:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

It cannot be denied that this present life (which is called light, Job 3:20, Job 33:30 Psalms 56:13, and which is expressed synecdochically, by seeing the sun, Ecclesiastes 6:5, Ecclesiastes 7:11) is in itself a great blessing, and very desirable; but it is not perpetual nor satisfactory; which is here implied and expressed hi the next verse.

Ecclesiastes 11:7

7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: