Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
The getting--or, "what is obtained" (compare Job 7:2; Jeremiah 22:13, Hebrew).
vanity . . . to and fro--as fleeting as chaff or stubble in the wind (compare Proverbs 20:17-21; Psalms 62:10). Such gettings are unsatisfactory.
them . . . death--act as if they did (Proverbs 8:36; Proverbs 17:19).
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