Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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," etc. But it is plainly a return to the idea (Ecclesiastes 1:3) 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, etc., 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 4:13-14; Revelation 21:5).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Ecclesiastes 4:8
Isaiah 55:2
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