Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;
2 Kings 1:2And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and was sick; and he sent messengers and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this disease.
2 Kings 5:27But the leprosy of Naaman shall fasten upon thee, and upon thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence leprous, as snow.
2 Chronicles 24:24Truly with a small company of men came the army of the Syrians, but Jehovah delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah the God of their fathers; and they executed judgment upon Joash.
Psalms 78:33And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:10-18
The Vanity of Riches. 9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.… Read the whole commentary →