In them - i.e., in the sons of men.

To do good - In a moral sense. Physical enjoyment is referred to in Ecclesiastes 3:13.

I know.—Literally, I knew: i.e., I came to know. The writer is relating the conclusions at which he successively arrived.…

I know that [there is] no good in them
In these things; as the Arabic version; in the creatures, as Jarchi; in all sublunary e…

Everything is as God made it; not as it appears to us.

We have the world so much in our hearts, and are so taken up with thoughts and cares …