John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 10:15

Verſ. 15. The labour of the fooliſh wearieth every one of them] Whileſt hee laboureth in vain, and maketh much adoe to little purpoſe. Hee medleth in many things, and ſo createth himſelf many croſſes: hee will needs bee full of buſineſſe, and ſo muſt needs be full of trouble, ſith hee wants wit to manage the one,Iſa. 57.10. & 47.13. and improve the other. Thou art wearied in the greatneſſe of thy way. And again, Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counſells, ſaith God to ſuch, as had wearied him alſo with their iniquities, and made him to ſerve with their ſins, Iſa. 43.24. Yea even then, when they think they have done him very good ſervice. Thus Paul, before his converſion, perſecuted the Saints ſo eagerly,Acts 26. and was ſo mad upon it (as himſelf ſpeaketh) that, like a tired Wolf, wearied in worrying the flock, hee lay panting as it were for breath: and when hee could doe no more,Acts 9.1 Act. & Mon. 1684. 1843 yet breathed out threatnings. Thus Bonner would work himſelf windleſſe almoſt, in buffeting the Martyrs, and whipping them with rods, as hee did Mr. Bartlet Green, Mr. Rough, and many others. So the Philoſophers wearied themſelves and their followers in their wild diſquiſitions after, and diſcourſes of the chief Happineſſe: which, becauſe it lay not in their walk, therefore ab itinere regio deviantes ad illam metropolim non potuerunt pervenire, ſaith Caſſian, they wandring from the King of Heavens High-way, they could never be able to get to that Metropolitan City, called Jehovah-ſhammah, or the Lord is there, Ezek. 48.34. They wandred in the Wilderneſſe, in a ſolitary way, they found no City to dwell in, Pſal. 107.4. Fools many times beat their wings much, as if they would fly farre and high, but with the Buſtard, they cannot riſe above the earth: or if they doe, they are ſoon pulled down again by the Devil, to feed upon the worſt of excrements,Picrius. as the Lapwing doth, though it hath a coronet on the head: and is therefore fitly made an hieroglyphick of infelicity.