John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 4:7

Verſ. 7. Then I returned, and ſaw vanity, &c.] i. e. another extream of vanity, viſible where-ever the Sun is ſeen. Dum vitant ſtulti vitium, in contrariae currant: Fools whiles they ſhun the ſands, ruſh upon the rocks; as Herod would needs prevent perjury by murther. The ſluggard here, ſeeing thoſe that doe beſt to be envied of others, reſolves to doe juſt nothing. Again, the covetous Miſer, ſeeing the ſluggard lye under ſo much infamy for doing nothing, ſe laboribus conficit, undoes himſelf with over-doing. Sed nemo ita perplexus tenetur inter duo vitia, quinexitus pateat, abſque tertio, ſaith an Ancient: But no man is ſo held hampered betwixt two vices, but that hee may well get off, without falling into a third. What need Eutyches fall into the other extream of Neſtorius? or Stancarus of Oſiander? or Illyricus of Strigelius? but that they were for their pride juſtly given up to a ſpirit of giddineſſe.