Charles Ellicott Commentary Ecclesiastes 8:6

"for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him:" — Ecclesiastes 8:6 (ASV)

The connecting particles here present difficulties that have not been satisfactorily solved; and it has even been conjectured that some words may have dropped out of the text. The first half of the verse repeats Ecclesiastes 3:1; the second, Ecclesiastes 6:1 almost word for word; for this reason, our translation “misery” is preferable to “wickedness,” as some render it.