John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 2:17

Verſ. 17. Therefore I hated life] i. e. I leſſe loved it than I had done; I ſaw mortality to be a mercy, with Cato; I was neither fond of life, Ʋſque adeone mori miſerum Virgil. nor afraid of death, with Q. Elizabeth. I preferred my Coffin before my Cradle, my Burial-day before my Birth-day, chap. 7.1. A greater than Solomon threatens thoſe that love life, with the loſs of life, Luk. 17.33. and hath purpoſely ſet a particular vanity and vexation upon every day of our life, that wee may not dote upon it, ſith we dye daily. Sufficient to the day is the evil (that is, the miſery) thereof. Quicquid boni eſt in mundo, ſaith Auſtin, what good thing ſoever we have here, is either paſt, preſent, or to come. If paſt, it's nothing: if to come, it's uncertain: if preſent, yet it is unſufficient, unſatisfactory. So that, whilſt I call to mind things paſt (ſaid that incomparable Q. Elizabeth) behold things preſent, and expect things to come,Camb. Eliz. fol. 325. I hold them happieſt that goe hence ſooneſt.