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Ec 5:17 King James All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
eateth--appropriately put for "liveth" in general, as connected with Ecc 5:11-12, Ecc 5:18.

darkness--opposed to "light (joy) of countenance" (Ecc 8:1; Pro 16:15).

wrath--fretfulness, literally, "His sorrow is much, and his infirmity (of body) and wrath."
 
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15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?