Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 2:17
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Ecclesiastes2:17
17 Therefore I hated life , because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me : for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
My Life, though accompanied with so much Honour, and Pleasure, and Wisdom, was a burden to me, and I was apt to wish either that I had never been born, or that I might speedily die.
All humane designs and works are so far from yielding me that satisfaction which I expected, that the consideration of them encreaseth my discontent.
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