Ecclesiastes 6:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 6 The vanity of riches without use, Ecclesiastes 6:1,2. Of children and old age without competent wealth; their obscurity is worse than not to have been, Ecclesiastes 6:3-6. All labour is for necessaries of life, which one getteth as well as another, Ecclesiastes 6:7,8. It is good for us to enjoy what we have, and not to desire what we have not; for our portion is appointed its; and we ourselves are vain; and other things do but increase our vanity, Ecclesiastes 6:9-12. No text from Poole on this verse.

Ecclesiastes 6:1

1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: