“Therefore he adds: "Words are very many," that is, few things are known: below, chapter 10: "The fool multiplies words." "And having much vanity in disputing," and little truth, above, chapter 3: "He has delivered the world to their disputation, so that man may not find the work which God has wrought from the beginnin…”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 6
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11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
— Ecclesiastes 6:11 —
12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?