Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 7:25

25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things , and to know the wickedness of folly , even of foolishness and madness.

I was not discouraged, but provoked by the difficulty of the work to undertake it: which is an argument of a great and generous Soul.

He useth three words signifying the same thing, to intimate his vehement desire, and vigorous, and unwearied endeavor after it.

Both of Gods various Providences, and of the differing and contrary counsels and courses of men.

That I might clearly and fully understand the great evil of sin, and all that wickedness, and folly, or madness which is bound up in the hearts of all men by Nature, and which discovers it self in the course of their Lives.

Marginal references: Heb. I and [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1+ letters]art [illegible: 1 word].; Ch. 1. 17. & 2. [illegible: 1+ letters]2.; Or, the account, so Gr.