Solomon, having found that wisdom and folly agree in being subject to vanity, now contrasts one with the other (Ecclesiastes 2:13). Bot…

Hasten.—Habakkuk 1:8.

More than I. —There is an alternative rendering, which has the authority …

For who can eat ?
&c.] Who should eat, but such a man that has laboured for it? or, who has a power to eat, that is,…

Our hearts are very reluctant to give up their expectations of great things from creation; but Solomon eventually came to this. The world is a vale…