Ecclesiastes 5:17 meaning and explanation
Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
Ecclesiastes 5:17, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the Teacher, reflecting on the rich man he has just described, whose hoarded wealth and lost ventures leave him nothing to pass on. This verse completes that portrait: the man's days are spent eating in darkness, a picture of joyless, hidden consumption rather than open fellowship, and his life is marked by sorrow, sickness and anger.
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