Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ecclesiastes 1:13

COM commentary-section · status:draft · license:PD

13. this sore travail —namely, that of "searching out all things done under heaven." Not human wisdom in general, which comes afterwards ( :- , c.), but laborious enquiries into, and speculations about, the works of men for example, political science. As man is doomed to get his bread, so his knowledge, by the sweat of his brow ( :- ) [GILL]. exercised —that is, disciplined; literally, "that they may thereby chastise, or humble themselves." return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-14" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-ecc-1-003

절 (explains)

bible-text/ecc-1-13

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological