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.
I am not sure Solomon was entitled to even have such an opinion, after all, everything he received he received without laboring for. He received his wisdom because God freely gave him something he didn't labor for. O' how sometimes people formulate harsh opinions of others but fail to realize what state they themselves are in, that they themselves do not rise above the level of their critique. If God adopted this opinion towards Solomon then he Solomon himself would never have achieved his great wisdom. How different from Gods perspective this is; the Lord generously gave to the unworthy making Himself poor and despised so that others may be rich. This mindset of Solomon does not take into account that everything he had had been given to him and the gift he received was not his own but was a direct result of God making him rich.
22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
If one is striving and laboring for the right things then the answer to this question is man will have much for all his labor! Again, this manifests that Solomon was laboring for the wrong things. In his uncircumcised heart he labored for wealth, to be famous and for acquisitions. All of these turned out to be broken cisterns which could hold no water; for him life became vain and unfulfilling (Jeremiah 2:13). This should be instructive to us today; we should strive for the right things, things that pertain to the kingdom of heaven. We should not be in pursuit of things that offer temporary satisfaction but are temporal for in the end they will leave us unsatisfied (Col 3:1-2)
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