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Verse Ecclesiastes 5:20. _FOR HE SHALL NOT MUCH REMEMBER_] The person
who acts in this way, extracts all the good requisite from life. He
passes through things temporal so as not to lose those that ar...
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The days will pass smoothly and pleasantly, while he lives in the
consciousness of God’s favor.
ANSWERETH HIM - i. e., grants his prayers....
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3. EXHORTATIONS ON DIFFERENT VANITIES
CHAPTER 5
_ 1. Concerning worship and vows (Ecclesiastes 5:1)_
2. Concerning extortions (Ecclesiastes 5:8)
3. The vanities of wealth (Eccle
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CONCERNING DESPOTISM AND WEALTH.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 f. The oppression and injustice that one sees (_in_
an Oriental satrapy) are not to be wondered at when we remember the
graded hierarchy of officials...
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ANSWERETH. causeth [things] to respond, as in Hosea 2:21; Hosea 2:22.
See note on Ecclesiastes 10:19....
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_he shall not much remember the days of his life_ This follows the
order of the Hebrew and gives a satisfying meaning: The man who has
learnt the secret of enjoyment is not anxious about the days of h...
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_ECCLESIASTES 5:19_. EVERY _MAN ALSO TO WHOM,_ &C.— _And indeed any
man, to whom God,_ &c. (_for this very thing is certainly a gift of
God_) Ecclesiastes 5:20 _will not much remember the days of his...
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c. Exhortation to enjoy the riches God permits Ecclesiastes 5:18-20
TEXT 5:18-20
18
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and
enjoy oneself in all one's labor in which h...
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DISHEARTENING OUTLOOK ON LIFE
1-8. Disorders in the religious, in the political world. In the
earlier part of this chapter the writer turns from secular to
religious matters. H e points out the irrev...
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FOR HE SHALL NOT MUCH REMEMBER] He will not be overtroubled by the
knowledge that these pleasures are fleeting, and that life itself is
uncertain....
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 5
BE AFRAID TO MAKE GOD ANGRY – ECCLESIASTES 5:1-7
V1 Be careful when you go to God...
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“In the enjoyment of God’s gifts he does not think much of the
sorrows or brevity of life.” This is the usual explanation; and
though not satisfied with it, we cannot suggest a better....
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_[Ecclesiastes 5:19]_ כִּ֚י לֹ֣א הַרְבֵּ֔ה
יִזְכֹּ֖ר אֶת
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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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THE CONCLUSION.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
For himself Coheleth has a very decided opinion on this point. He is
quite sure that his first conclusion is sound, though for a moment he
had questioned its soundne...
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The observation of the religious life brings no truer satisfaction. In
this brief passage contempt for religion is not expressed, but there
is absolutely no joy or satisfaction manifest. The life is w...
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For he shall not much remember the days of his (p) life; because God
answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.
(p) He will take no great thought for the pains that he has endured in
times past....
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REFLECTIONS
MY soul! are all things here below empty and unsatisfying: and is
there a rest that remaineth for the people of God? And wilt thou not,
then, after such repeated convictions as these scrip...
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If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of
judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he
that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher...
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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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FOR HE SHALL NOT MUCH REMEMBER THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE,.... Be they more
or fewer, as Jarchi: he will not think life long and tedious; nor
dwell upon, and distress himself with, the troubles he has met w...
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_For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God
answereth [him] in the joy of his heart._
Ver. 20. _For he shall not much remember, &c._] He vexeth not at the
brevity or misery of h...
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_Every man also_, &c. “And whosoever he be whom God hath blessed,
not only with plenty of worldly goods, but also with such a noble and
generous mind that he is not their slave, but truly master of th...
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ABSTAINING FROM VICES AND FOSTERING VIRTUES...
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For he shall not much remember the days of his life, for the memory of
any earthly enjoyment is brief; BECAUSE GOD ANSWERETH HIM IN THE JOY
OF HIS HEART, vouchsafing to him such happiness in this life...
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"FOR HE WILL NOT OFTEN CONSIDER THE YEARS OF HIS LIFE, BECAUSE GOD
KEEPS HIM OCCUPIED WITH THE GLADNESS OF HIS HEART."HE WILL NOT OFTEN
CONSIDER THE YEARS OF HIS LIFE" -the years of his life are the f...
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18-20 Life is God's gift. We must not view our calling as a drudgery,
but take pleasure in the calling where God puts us. A cheerful spirit
is a great blessing; it makes employments easy, and afflict...
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HE SHALL NOT MUCH REMEMBER; so as to disquiet or vex himself
therewith. THE DAYS; either,
1. The troubles; days being here put for evil or sad days, by a usual
synecdoche, as JOB 18:20 PSALMS 137:7 O...
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Ecclesiastes 5:20 dwell H2142 (H8799) unduly H7235 (H8687) days H3117
life H2416 God H430 busy H6031 ...
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BETTER THAN SEEKING RICHES IS TO SEEK TO ENJOY WALKING WITH GOD
(ECCLESIASTES 5:18).
Once again he falls back on his idea of a godly man. Here is the one
who does find blessing from God. We should not...
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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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Ecclesiastes 5:8-7
I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear
of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superintendence of
human affairs. This belief Koheleth now pro...
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Ecclesiastes 5:9 ; ECCLESIASTES 6:1
I. In all grades of society human subsistence is very much the same.
Even princes are not fed with ambrosia, nor do poets subsist on
asphodel. The profit of the ea...
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CONTENTS: Warnings against a vain religion. The vanity and vexation
attending the possession of wealth.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: We should address ourselves to the worship of God with a...
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Ecclesiastes 5:1. _Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God._
Avoid wandering thoughts, and be wholly absorbed in devotion. Do not
hear the words of prayer only, but desire the blessings soug...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:8 Life “Under the Sun.” The
Preacher observes the hardships of life in a fallen world.
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:20 HE WILL NOT MUCH REMEMBER...
HIS LIFE. The one to whom God grants contentment focuses on blessings
from God rather than the darker realities of human existence....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 5:20. HE SHALL NOT MUCH REMEMBER THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE] An
even joy is diffused through them—they pass smoothly and pleasantly
along. _Answereth him in the joy of his hea...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 5:1
Section 6. Man's outward and secular life being unable to secure
happiness and satisfaction, can these be found in _popular religion?_
Religious exercises need the observa...
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Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to
hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they do not consider
the evil that they do (Ecclesiastes 5:1).
When you go into the...
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Deuteronomy 28:47; Deuteronomy 28:8; Isaiah 64:5; Isaiah 65:13;...
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Remember — So as to disquiet himself. The days — The troubles;
days being put here for evil, or, sad days. Answereth — His desires,
in giving him solid joy and comfort....