Because to every purpose there is time and judgment,.... There is a fit season, and a right and proper manner of doing everything that is to be done; see Ec 3:1; which a wise man discerns; and which when a man hits upon, it prevents a great deal of mischief, which for want of it comes upon men, as the following clause shows; some refer this to the punishment of the wicked, and to a future judgment.
So the Targum,"to every business there is a time good and evil, and according to the judgment of truth the whole world is judged;''and to the same purpose Jarchi,"there is a time fixed for the visitation of the wicked, and there is judgment before the Lord; this is vengeance or punishment;''therefore the misery of man [is] great upon him; he not observing the right time and manner of doing what he ought, brings much trouble upon himself; his days are few and full trouble, and every day has a sufficiency of evil in because of the evil of sin, the evil of misery presses upon him, and is a heavy burden on him Jarchi's note is,"when the wickedness of a man is great, then cometh his visitation.'