John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:11
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity ,.... As appears by all that has been said in this and the preceding chapters; such as wisdom and knowledge, wealth and riches, pleasure, power, and authority. Man is a poor vain creature himself, all he is and has is vanity; and these serve but to increase it, and make him vainer and vainer still; what is man the better ? for these things? not at all, rather the worse, being more vain; there is no profit by them, no excellency arises to... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:11-22
Here, 1. Solomon lays down his conclusion which he had undertaken to prove, as that which was fully confirmed by the foregoing discourse: There be many things that increase vanity; the life of man is vain, at the best, and there are abundance of accidents that concur to make it more so; even that which pretends to increase the vanity and make it more vexatious. 2. He draws some inferences from it, which serve further to evince the truth of it. (1.) That a man is never the nearer to true... read more