I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Ver. 10. I have seen the travail that God, &c.] Not fortune, but Providence ordereth all cross occurrences; "a wheel" there is "within a wheel"; Eze 1:1-28 then when men may think things run on wheels, at sixes and sevens, as they say. "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God." 1Pe 5:6 His holy hand hath a special stroke in all our travails. He both ordaineth Act 2:1-47 and ordereth all, Gen 1:20 altering the property, Rom 8:28 and disposing them to good, raising profit from all. Thus men afflicted Job for covetousness, the devil for malice, Ecc 1:15-16 God, for trial and exercise of his graces. "To be exercised therein," saith the text, or, as the word signifieth, to be "humbled therewith," to "hide pride from man," Job 33:17 to tame and take him a link lower. "Their hearts are brought down," saith the prophet; "they speak out of the ground," Isa 29:4 that erst set their mouths against heaven, and said, "I am, and besides me there is none."