Ecclesiastes 1:1
Verse 1 of 18. The 1st of 12 chapters in Ecclesiastes, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
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Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 1:1
Here is, I. An account of the penman of this book; it was Solomon, for no other son of David was king of Jerusalem; but he conceals his name Solomon, peaceable, because by his sin he had brought trouble upon himself and his kingdom, had broken his peace with God and lost the peace of his conscience, and therefore was no more worthy of that name.
Read Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 1:1–3: The Vanity of the World.
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