Verse 6
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment ,.... There is a fit season, and a right and proper manner of doing everything that is to be done; see Ecclesiastes 3:1 ; which a wise man discerns; and which when a man hits upon, it prevents a great deal of mischief, which for want of it comes upon men, as the following clause shows; some refer this to the punishment of the wicked, and to a future judgment. So the Targum,
"to every business there is a time good and evil, and according to the judgment of truth the whole world is judged;'
and to the same purpose Jarchi,
"there is a time fixed for the visitation of the wicked, and there is judgment before the Lord; this is vengeance or punishment;'
therefore the misery of man is great upon him ; he not observing the right time and manner of doing what he ought, brings much trouble upon himself; his days are few and full trouble, and every day has a sufficiency of evil in because of the evil of sin, the evil of misery presses upon him, and is a heavy burden on him Jarchi's note is,
"when the wickedness of a man is great, then cometh his visitation.'
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