There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:
Solomon had shown, in the close of the foregoing chapter, how good it is to make a comfortable use of the gifts of God's providence; now here he shows the evil of the contrary, having and not using, gathering to lay up for I know not what contingent emergencies to come, not to lay out on the most urgent occasions present.
Commenting on Ecclesiastes 6:1-6
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun,.... The Vulgate Latin version reads it, another evil; but wrongly, for the same is considered as before, the evil of covetousness; which is one of the evil things that come out of the heart of man; is abominable to the Lord, contrary to his nature and will, and a breach of his law, which...
For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart. (p) He will take no great thought for the pains that he has endured in times past.