Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 2:11

11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit; and there was no profit under the sun.

I made a serious review of my former works and labours, and considered whether I had obtained that satisfaction in them which I designed and expected.

The pleasure was past and gone, and I was never the better for it, but as empty as before, and had nothing left but sorrowful reflections upon it.

k I found my self suddenly disappointed and wholly dissatisfied in this course.

Marginal references: Ch. 1. 3, 14.; Or, excellency.