Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Still the
fool (the wicked oppressor) is not to be envied even in this life, who "folds his hands together" in idleness (Proverbs 6:10; Proverbs 24:33), living on the means he wrongfully wrests from others; for such a one
eateth his own flesh—that is, is a self-tormentor, never satisfied, his spirit preying on itself (Isaiah 9:20; Isaiah 49:26).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ecclesiastes 4:5:
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Ecclesiastes 5:10
Ecclesiastes 5:12
Ecclesiastes 10:18
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