For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail
grief
All his days are full of sorrows, of a variety of them; and all
his affairs and transactions of life are attended with grief and
trouble; not only the days of old age are evil ones, in which he
can take no pleasure; or those times which exceed the common age
of man, when he is got to fourscore years or more, and when his
strength is labour and sorrow; but even all his days, be they
fewer or more, from his youth upward, are all evil and full of
trouble, ( Genesis 47:9
) ( Job 14:1 )
; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night;
which is appointed for rest and ease; and when laid down on his
bed for it, as the word signifies; yet, either through an eager
desire of getting wealth, or through anxious and distressing
cares for the keeping it when gotten, he cannot sleep quietly and
comfortably, his carking cares and anxious thoughts keep him
waking; or, if he sleeps, his mind is distressed with dreams and
frightful apprehensions of things, so that his sleep is not sweet
and refreshing to him. This is also vanity;
or one of the vanities which belong to human life.