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I. BECAUSE THEY ARE UTTERLY USELESS. Most, if not all, the things that occasion them are inevitable.

1. The approach of age.

2. The advance of reformations.

3. The separation from property.

4. The advent of death.

II. BECAUSE THEY ARE REMOVABLE. Since Christianity has come, all the disquietudes of the soul may be hushed. They are kept in "perfect peace" whose minds are stayed upon God.

(Homilist.)

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KJV: Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

WEB: "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.