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Ecclesiastes 2:11

Ecclesiastes 2:11

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Then I looked on—I turned to contemplate—all the works which my hands had wrought. He examined carefully the effects of the conduct and proceedings mentioned in , and he now gives his matured judgment concerning them.

They had contributed nothing to his anxious inquiry for man's real good. His sorrowful conclusion again is that all was vanity, a hunting of wind; in all the pursuits and labors that men undertake there is no real profit (), no lasting happiness, nothing to satisfy the cravings of the spirit.

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