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Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 2:17

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

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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