Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Surely every man walketh in a vain show - Hebrew, 'only as a shadow walketh man (or 'as an unreal image') [the bª- marks that this is his essential character-literally, IN an image] (Psalms 144:4; Job 14:2).
Surely they are disquieted in vain - what they so restlessly strive after is vain. The Hebrew for "disquieted" yehemayun) is 'they make a bustle' about a thing (cf. Luke 10:41).
He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them - i:e., who shall enjoy them. The former verb х tsaabar (H6651)] expresses the reaping, binding in sheaves, and heaping in the field; the latter х 'aacap (H622)] expresses the removing from the field, and laying up in barns. Compare the case of the rich fool (Luke 12:17-20).