Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ecclesiastes 1:15

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15. Investigation ( :- ) into human ways is vain labor, for they are hopelessly "crooked" and "cannot be made straight" by it ( :- ). God, the chief good, alone can do this ( Isaiah 40:4 ; Isaiah 45:2 ). wanting — ( Isaiah 45:2- : ). numbered —so as to make a complete number; so equivalent to "supplied" [MAURER]. Or, rather, man's state is utterly wanting; and that which is wholly defective cannot be numbered or calculated. The investigator thinks he can draw up, in accurate numbers, statistics of man's wants; but these, including the defects in the investigator's labor, are not partial, but total. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-16" class="com-number"

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