For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ver. 22. For what hath a man of all his labour.] What makes he of it, everything reckoned? See Ecclesiastes 1:3. What takes he with him when he dies, more than a poor winding sheet? As that great Emperor of Egypt caused to be proclaimed at his funeral, that that shirt of his, there hanged up for the purpose, was all that he now had of all his labour and great achievements. Saladin the mighty monarch of the East is gone, and hath taken no more with him than what you see, said the bare priest that went before the bier. a See Trapp on " 1Ti 6:7 "
a Carion. Chron.