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The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by
his brotherless, childless isolation.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
A SECOND - Any one associated or connected with him.
Ecclesiastes 4:9...
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CHAPTER 4 OBSERVATIONS OF DIFFERENT WRONGS
_ 1. Concerning oppressions (Ecclesiastes 4:1)_
2. Concerning envy of fools and the rich (Ecclesiastes 4:4)
3. Concerning the miser (Ecclesiast
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ECCLESIASTES 4. A GLOOMY SURVEY. The chapter falls into four parts,
which treat respectively of oppression (Ecclesiastes 4:1), rivalry
(Ecclesiastes 4:4), isolation amounting to self-torture (Ecclesia...
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3. Attain your riches for practical good. Ecclesiastes 4:7-12
TEXT 4:7-12
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Then I looked again at vanity under the sun.
8
There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor
a b...
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VICISSITUDES OF LIFE. 'OH, THE PITY OF IT!'
1-3. The mass of human suffering and the absence of pity are such that
better off are the dead and still more the unborn.
It is not only through God's ord...
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TWO more ills of life are covetousness aria loneliness....
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 4
This chapter contains several subjects.
1. PEOPLE WHO SUFFER – ECCLESIASTES 4:1-...
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THEN I RETURNED. — The vanity of toil is especially apparent in the
case of a solitary man. It is possible, as has been suggested (see
Ecclesiastes 2:18), that this may have been the writer’s own case...
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וְ שַׁ֧בְתִּי אֲנִ֛י וָ אֶרְאֶ֥ה
הֶ֖בֶל תַּ֥ח
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SECOND SECTION
The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business
Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20
I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom
utters her vo...
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AND BY HUMAN INJUSTICE AND PERVERSITY.
Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ecclesiastes 4:1
But not only are our endeavours to find the "good" of our labours
thwarted by the gracious, inflexible laws of the just God...
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IT IS RENDERED HOPELESS BY THE BASE ORIGIN OF HUMAN INDUSTRIES.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
This stinging sense of the miserable estate of his race has, however,
diverted the Preacher from the conduct of the ma...
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From this general survey the preacher returned to examine the
condition of the beings whom he had described as being no better than
the beasts. He looked out upon them, and saw them in suffering, and...
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Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. (8) There is one
alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor
brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye
sa...
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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...
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THEN I RETURNED, AND I SAW VANITY UNDER THE SUN. Another vanity
besides what he had taken notice of, and is as follows. Aben Ezra's
note is,
"I turned from considering the words of this fool, and I s...
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Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Ver. 7. _Then I returned, and saw vanity, &c., _] _i.e., _ Another
extreme of vanity, visible wherever the sun is seen. _Dum vitant
stulti vitium in c...
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EVILS OF SOCIAL AND CIVIL LIFE...
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Then I returned, fixing his attention upon another point that needed
explanation, AND I SAW VANITY UNDER THE SUN....
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"THEN. LOOKED AGAIN AT VANITY UNDER THE SUN....
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7,8 Frequently, the more men have, the more they would have; and on
this they are so intent, that they get no enjoyment from what they
have. Selfishness is the cause of this evil. A selfish man cares...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Ecclesiastes 4:7 returned H7725 (H8804) saw H7200 (H8799) vanity H1892
sun H8121...
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SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE (ECCLESIASTES 4:4).
Having all to briefly considered the oppression that was in the world,
which has left him feeling that it was better if they had never been
born, he no...
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CHAPTER 4 THE DREADFULNESS OF OPPRESSION. GUIDANCE ON LIVING.
This chapter begins with considering the dreadfulness of oppression
and then continues with thoughts on living, giving both good and bad...
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It
teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had
no voice in making; that we often lie at th...
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CONTENTS: Discontent and impatience because of the oppressions and
iniquities of life.
CHARACTERS: Solomon.
CONCLUSION: The world is full of trouble. By reason of man's
perversity, he is ever distur...
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Ecclesiastes 4:2. _Wherefore I praised the dead more than the living,_
who are robbed, fleeced, and exposed to incessant afflictions, from
oppression and war. Solomon alludes to extreme cases, such as...
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_Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this
a man is envied of his neighbour._
AN OLD PORTRAIT OF MODERN MEN
Here is a portrait, drawn by a man who lived thousands of years...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 4:7 Some people engage in endless
TOIL yet are NEVER SATISFIED even though they acquire great RICHES. On
the other hand there are those who
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 4:10. IF THEY FALL.] Not both together, but if one or the
other falls.
ECCLESIASTES 4:12. A THREEFOLD CORD.] Two cords would only suggest
plurality, but three give the...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 4:1
Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of _man_'_s
inability to be the architect of his own happiness_._ _There are many
things which interrupt or des...
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So I returned, and I considered all of the oppressions that are done
under the sun: and the tears of those that are oppressed, and they had
no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was...
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Ecclesiastes 4:1; Psalms 78:33; Zechariah 1:6...