What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
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Interpretation
Much is to be learned by comparing one part of Scripture with another. We here behold Solomon returning from the broken and empty cisterns of the world, to the Fountain of living water; recording his own folly and shame, the bitterness of his disappointment, and the lessons he had learned.
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This thought runs through Ecclesiastes 1:1-3.