Teks -- Ecclesiastes 2:17 (NET)

2:17 So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile– like chasing the wind.

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Wesley: Ecc 2:17 - Life

My life was a burden to me.

Wesley: Ecc 2:17 - Is grievous

All human designs and works are so far from yielding me satisfaction, that the consideration of them increases my discontent.

JFB: Ecc 2:17

Disappointed in one experiment after another, he is weary of life. The backslider ought to have rather reasoned as the prodigal (Hos 2:6-7; Luk 15:17-18).

JFB: Ecc 2:17 - grievous unto me

(Job 10:1).

Clarke: Ecc 2:17 - Therefore I hated life

Therefore I hated life - את החיים et hachaiyim , the lives, both of the wise, the mad man, and the fool. Also all the stages of life, the child, the man, and the sage. There was nothing in it worth pursuing, no period worth re-living and no hope that if this were possible I could again be more successful.

TSK: Ecc 2:17 - I hated // work // for

I hated : Num 11:15; 1Ki 19:4; Job 3:20-22, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Job 14:13; Jer 20:14-18; Jon 4:3, Jon 4:8; Phi 1:23-25

work : Ecc 1:14, Ecc 3:16; Eze 3:14; Hab 1:3

for : Ecc 2:11, Ecc 2:22, Ecc 6:9; Psa 89:47

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Poole: Ecc 2:17 - I hated life // The work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me

I hated life my life, though accompanied with so much honour, and pleasure, and wisdom, was a burden to me, and I was apt to wish either that I had never been born, or that I might speedily die.

The work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me all human designs and works are so far from yielding me that satisfaction which I expected, that the consideration of them increaseth my discontent.

Haydock: Ecc 2:17 - Life

Life. Hebrew, "I hated life," as all is attended with anxiety, Romans vii. 24.

Gill: Ecc 2:17 - Therefore I hated life // because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me // for all is vanity and vexation of spirit

Therefore I hated life,.... Not strictly and simply understood, since life is the gift of God; and a great blessing it is, more than raiment, and so dear to a man, that he will give all he has for it: but comparatively, in comparison of the lovingkindness of God, which is better than life; or in comparison of eternal life, which a good man desires to depart from this world, for the sake of enjoying it. The sense seems to be this, that since the case of wise men and fools was equal, he had the less love for life, the less regard to it, the less desire to continue in it; no solid happiness being to be enjoyed in anything under the sun: though some think that he was even weary of life, impatient of it, as Job, Jonah, and others have been. The Targum is,

"I hate all evil life:''

Alshech interprets it of the good things of this world, which were the cause of hurt unto him; and Aben Ezra understands, by life, living persons;

because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me; which was either wrought by himself; particularly his hard studies, and eager pursuits after knowledge and wisdom, which were a weariness to his flesh; or which were done by others, especially evil ones: so the Targum,

"for evil to me is an evil work, which is done by the children of men under the sun in this world;''

for all is vanity and vexation of spirit; See Gill on Ecc 1:14.