8. MAURER translates, "All words are wearied out," that is, are inadequate, as also, "man cannot express" all the things in the world which undergo this ceaseless, changeless cycle of vicissitudes: "The eye is not satisfied with seeing them," c. But it is plainly a return to the idea ( :- ) as to man's "labor," which is only wearisome and profitless "no new" good can accrue from it ( Ecclesiastes 1:9 ); for as the sun, c., so man's laborious works move in a changeless cycle. The eye and ear are two of the taskmasters for which man toils. But these are never "satisfied" ( Ecclesiastes 6:7 Proverbs 27:20 ). Nor can they be so hereafter, for there will be nothing "new." Not so the chief good, Jesus Christ ( John 4:13 ; John 4:14 ; Revelation 21:5 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"
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