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Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
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A Shift in Focus
Commentators agree that this verse serves as a transition, introducing a new example of 'vanity' or futility. The author is shifting his focus from the vanity of competitive toil to the specific emptiness experienced by a person who labors in isolation, a theme that will be developed in the following verses.
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Ecclesiastes
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by his brotherless, childless isolation (Ecclesiastes 4:8).
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19th Century
Anglican
Then I returned.— The vanity of toil is especially apparent in the case of a solitary man. It is possible, as has been su…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun . ] Another vanity besides what he had taken notice of, and is as fo…
