Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 9:3

3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil , and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead .

A great trouble and temptation to a considerate and good Man.

Of wicked men, such as the generality of Mankind are.

Either 1. of grief, upon this occasion. Or rather 2. of wickedness, as appears from the next clause, and by comparing this place with Eccles. 8. 11.

Upon this account they go on madly and desperately in evil courses without any fear of an after-reckoning.

After all their mad and wicked pranks in the whole course of their life, they die in the same manner as the best men do. So hitherto there is no difference. For Solomon here forbears the consideration of the future life. Onely he seems to intimate that as the madness, so the happiness of the wicked is ended by Death, which is more fully expressed in the following words.

Marginal references: Ch. 2. 14, 15, 16.