Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
Is sweet. Life is enjoyable, especially to the godly. No impatience because of present trials, and the vanity of earthly goods, should make us forget that life is a blessing and an opportunity for doing and receiving good.
Verse Ecclesiastes 11:7. _TRULY THE LIGHT_ IS _SWEET_] Life is dear to every man as the _light of the sun_ is to the _eye_. A man would give all that he has for his life, and it is particularly dear t...
The preceding exhortation to a life of labor in the sight of God is now addressed especially to the active and the young; and is enforced by another consideration, namely, the transitory character of...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Proverbs concerning man's work(Ecclesiastes 11:1)_ 2. The vanity of life (Ecclesiastes 11:7) Ecclesiastes 11:1. These continued proverbs concern the work of m
ECCLESIASTES 11:1 TO ECCLESIASTES 12:8. CLOSING COUNSELS. It is well to do and to get all one can, in the way of industry and pleasure, before old age draws on. Ecclesiastes 11:1 and...
_Truly the light is sweet_ Better, AND THE LIGHT IS SWEET. The conjunction is simply the usual copulative particle. The word for "sweet" is that used of honey in Judges 14:14; of the honeycomb in Prov...
F. EXHORTATIONS TO WORK IN HARMONY WITH Wisdom 11:112:8 1. Trust God and be cheerful in all of your activities. Ecclesiastes 11:1-8 TEXT 11:1-8 1 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for...
LIFE AFTER ALL IS WORTH LIVING 1-3. Fulfil the duty of beneficence, knowing that results are in the hands of God....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 11 THE KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN BEINGS HAS LIMITS – ECCLESIASTES 11:1-6 V1 Throw your bre...
וּ מָתֹ֖וק הָ אֹ֑ור וְ טֹ֥וב לַֽ...
BUT IN A WISE USE AND A WISE ENJOYMENT OF THE PRESENT LIFE, Ecclesiastes 11:1 What that Good is, and where it may be found, the Preacher now proceeds to show. But, as his manner is, he does not say i...
FOURTH SECTION The Quest Achieved. The Chief Good Is To Be Found, Not In Wisdom, Nor In Pleasure, Nor In Devotion To Affairs And Its Rewards; But In A Wise Use And A Wise Enjoyment Of The Present Li...
LIVE NOT FOR TODAY ALONE Ecclesiastes 11:1-10 The casting of bread upon the waters is an allusion to the oriental custom of casting rice-grains on the fields, when they lie submerged beneath the annu...
The method of worldly wisdom is not that of discretion only; it is, moreover, that of diligence, and this passage urges such diligence. Again, we have taken more than one text out of this passage to p...
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: (8) But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shal...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 12. The Book of Ecclesiastes is, up to a certain point, the converse of the Book of Proverbs. (see NOTE TO PROVERBS below) It is the experience of a...
TRULY THE LIGHT [IS] SWEET,.... Here begins a new subject, as most think; and some here begin the twelfth and last chapter, and not improperly. This is true of natural light, which is exceeding pleasa...
_Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun:_ Ver. 7. _Truly the light is sweet._] The light of life, of a lightsome life especially. Any life is sweet; w...
_Truly, the light is sweet_ It cannot be denied, that this present life is in itself a great blessing, and desirable; but it is not perpetual nor satisfactory: for, _if a man live many years_ Which is...
REJOICING WITH TREMBLING...
Truly, the light is sweet, life is most agreeable and beautiful if spent in the manner urged by the author in the first part of this chapter, AND A PLEASANT THING IT IS FOR THE EYES TO BEHOLD THE SUN,...
"THE LIGHT IS PLEASANT, AND IT IS GOOD FOR THE EYES TO SEE THE SUN."THE LIGHT IS PLEASANT" -i.e. it is good to be alive. Points To Note: 2 One of the great questions, even for the Christian, is that...
7-10 Life is sweet to bad men, because they have their portion in this life; it is sweet to good men, because it is the time of preparation for a better; it is sweet to all. Here is a caution to thin...
It cannot be denied that this present life (which is called _light_, JOB 3:20, JOB 33:30 PSALMS 56:13, and which is expressed synecdochically, by seeing the sun,...
Ecclesiastes 11:7 light H216 sweet H4966 pleasant H2896 eyes H5869 behold H7200 (H8800) sun H8121 the light -...
CHAPTER ECCLESIASTES 11:1 ADVICE FROM THE WISE MAN TO THE WISE. Central to these verses is the recognition of our ignorance. We do not know what will happen when we do things, we do not know what God...
CHAPTER S ECCLESIASTES 11:9 TO ECCLESIASTES 12:14 THE VENTURING OF THE YOUNG, THE TRIALS OF THE OLD AND MAN'S FINAL DESTINY. As we come to the end of the writer's musings we are rewarded with the fina...
Ecclesiastes 11:7 To most men there is something very hopeless about these words, a hopelessness with which too many of us are familiar. The tone is like that of some clever, old, hardened, unloving m...
Ecclesiastes 11:7 I. Notice the reality of the contrasts presented in life. Full as life is of pathetic meanings, we are often strangely insensible to them. We may not regard them with indifference, b...
Ecclesiastes 11:7 I. Good-temper is the result of a well-ordered character, in which each quality is so tempered as to act well with the rest, and to minister to the rightful and easy activity of the...
Ecclesiastes 8:16-12 I. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his last course. (1) His first conclusion is that wisdom, which of all temp...
Ecclesiastes 11:1. _Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days._ Hoard not thy bread; for if thou dost, it will mildew, it will be of no use to thee. Cast it on the waters...
Ecclesiastes 11:6. _In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good._...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to works of charity and right living. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: Since we have death and judgment to prepare for, we should do good to others and abound in liberalit...
Ecclesiastes 11:1. _Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days._ The root לחם _lechem,_ designates bread, corn, and all kinds of meat which sustain life. It refers also to...
_Truly the light is sweet._ THE SWEET LIGHT OF LIFE The light of the sun is at all times sweet and pleasant. Glorious orb! His beams not only reveal, but create ten thousand forms of beauty, that li...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 11:7 LIGHT... DARKNESS refers to the contrast between life and death. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 11:7. TRULY THE LIGHT IS SWEET.] Light as the symbol of life. (Psalms 36:9, Job 3:20.) Ecclesiaste
EXPOSITION Approaching the end of his treatise, Koheleth, in view of apparent anomalies in God's moral government, and the difficulties that meet man in his social and political relations, proceeds t...
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you don't know what evil shall be upon the eaRuth (Ecclesiastes 11:1-2). You do...
Ecclesiastes 7:11; Job 33:28; Job 33:30; Matthew 5:45; Proverbs 15:30
Truly — It cannot be denied that life is in itself desirable....