Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Suppose "there is a man," etc.
equity--rather "with success," as the Hebrew is rendered (Ecclesiastes 11:6), "prosper," though Margin gives "right" [HOLDEN and MAURER].
evil--not in itself, for this is the ordinary course of things, but "evil," as regards the chief good, that one should have toiled so fruitlessly.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Proverbs 10:22
Ecclesiastes 2:12
Ecclesiastes 2:22
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Ecclesiastes 9:5
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