Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 8:15

15 Then I commended mirth because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry : for that shall abide with him of his labour , the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

This he speaks, either 1. in the Person of a sensual Man. Things being so, as was related, v. 14. it is best to give a Man's self up to eating and drinking, and all manner of carnal delights. Or, 2. in his own Name and Person. Upon these considerations I concluded that it was most adviseable for a Man not to perplex and torment himself with the Thoughts of the seeming inequalities of Divine Providence and of the great disorders which are in the World, or with cares and fears about future events, or with infinite and insatiable desires of Worldly things, but quietly and chearfully and thankfully to enjoy the comforts which God gives him. See on Eccles. 2. 24. & 3. 12, 13.

This is the best advantage which he can make of this Worlds goods as to the present life.

Marginal references: Ch. 3. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. & 5. 18. & 9. 7.