Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 2:23

23 For all his days are sorrows , and his travel grief ; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night . This is also vanity.

Or, Though all his days were sorrows, i. e. full of sorrows. For this seems added to aggravate the evil mentioned in the foregoing verse. Though he took great and unwearied pains all his days, yet after death he hath no more benefit by it than another man hath.

The toils of his Body are, or were, accompanied with the vexations of his Mind.

Either because his mind is distracted, and his [illegible: 1+ letters]leep broken with perplexing cares and fears.

Marginal references: Job 14. 1.