Ecclesiastes 2:11 - Exposition

Then I looked on —I turned to contemplate— all the works which my hands had wrought . He examined carefully the effects of the conduct and proceedings mentioned in Ecclesiastes 2:1-10 , and he now gives his matured judgment concerning them. They had contributed nothing to his anxious inquiry for man's real good. His sorrowful conclusion again is that all was vanity, a hunting of wind; in all the pursuits and labors that men undertake there is no real profit ( Ecclesiastes 1:3 ), no lasting happiness, nothing to satisfy the cravings of the spirit.