Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ecclesiastes 1:15
Investigation (Ecclesiastes 1:13) into human ways is vain labor, for they are hopelessly "crooked" and "cannot be made straight" by it (Ecclesiastes 7:13). God, the chief good, alone can do this (Isaiah 40:4; Isaiah 45:2).
wanting— (Daniel 5:27).
numbered—so as to make a complete number; so equivalent to "supplied" [MAURER]. Or, rather, man's state is utterly wanting; and that which is wholly defective cannot be numbered or calculated. The investigator thinks he can draw up, in accurate numbers, statistics of man's wants; but these, including the defects in the investigator's labor, are not partial, but total.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ecclesiastes 1:15:
Ecclesiastes 1:14
Ecclesiastes 1:18
Ecclesiastes 2:12
Ecclesiastes 3:14
Ecclesiastes 7:13
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