Albert Barnes Commentary Ecclesiastes 5:12

Albert Barnes Commentary

Ecclesiastes 5:12

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Ecclesiastes 5:12

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep." — Ecclesiastes 5:12 (ASV)

Labouring man - Not a slave (Septuagint), but everyone who, according to the divine direction, earns his bread in the sweat of his brow.