Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 6:9

9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandring of the desire : This is also vanity, and vexation of Spirit .

i. e. The comfortable enjoyment of what a man hath: for seeing is oft put for enjoying, as Psal. 34. 12. Eccles. 2. 1. & 3. 13. &c.

Restless and insatiable Desires of what a man hath not, wherewith covetous rich men are perpetually haunted and tormented.

This wandring of the desire wherein most men indulge themselves.

Is not the way to satisfaction, as they imagine, but to vexation.

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