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Rather, it hath not seen nor known the sun: this (the untimely birth)
hath rest rather than the other....
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CHAPTER 6 DISHEARTENING CONTRADICTIONS
_ 1. Riches--Inability to enjoy them (Ecclesiastes 6:1)_
2. Having All--Yet no fill of the soul (Ecclesiastes 6:3)
3. The sad ending wail (Eccle
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ECCLESIASTES 6. FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON WEALTH AND FATE. Parallel with
the bitter experience of the avaricious man who loses his wealth is
that of the rich and successful man whose cherished desires ar...
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NOR KNOWN ANY THING: THIS HATH, &C.— _Nor known the difference of
one thing from another:_ Ecclesiastes 6:6. _Nay, though he had lived
twice a thousand years, without enjoying happiness, do not both g...
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2. It is possible to possess riches which cannot be enjoyed.
Ecclesiastes 6:1-6
TEXT 6:1-6
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent
among men
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a man to whom God has...
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LIFE AN ENIGMA
1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 6
A PERSON’S LIFE THAT IS NOT SATISFACTORY – ECCLESIASTES 6:1-6...
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גַּם ־שֶׁ֥מֶשׁ לֹא ־רָאָ֖ה וְ לֹ֣א
יָדָ֑ע
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THIRD SECTION
The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean
Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1
IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the C
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The preacher knows prosperity experimentally far better than poverty.
Moreover, by observation he is more familiar with men of wealth than
with poor men, and, therefore, he returns to a declaration of...
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If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the
days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and
also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is...
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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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MOREOVER, HE HATH NOT SEEN THE SUN,.... This must be spoken of the
abortive, and seems to confirm the sense of the former text, as
belonging to it; and whereas it has never seen the light of the sun,...
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Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath
more rest than the other.
Ver. 5. _Moreover he hath not seen the sun._] A second privilege and
prerogative of the poor abortive. No...
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_If a man beget a hundred children_ Very many, to whom he intends to
leave his estate; _and live many years_ Which is the chief thing that
he desires, and which gives him opportunity of increasing his...
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OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES....
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Moreover he hath not seen the sun, he has never had any enjoyment of
life, NOR KNOWN ANYTHING, shut out from everything that might bring
happiness; THIS HATH MORE REST THAN THE OTHER, that is, the unb...
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"IT NEVER SEES THE SUN AND IT NEVER KNOWS ANYTHING; IT IS BETTER OFF
THAN HE."NEVER KNOWS ANYTHING" -i.e. never knows anything of this life
or never knows what life is like.
"BETTER OFF THAN HE" -the...
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1-6 A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord
leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no
good or comfortable use of what he has. By one means or other...
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HE HATH NOT SEEN THE SUN; he never beheld the light, and therefore it
is not grievous to him to want it; whereas the covetous man saw that
light was very pleasant, and therefore the loss of it was irk...
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Ecclesiastes 6:5 seen H7200 (H8804) sun H8121 known H3045 (H8804) this
H2088 rest H5183 than H2088...
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LIFE IS NOT ENJOYABLE TO EVEN SOME OF THE RICH (ECCLESIASTES 6:1).
Ecclesiastes 6:1
‘There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies
heavily on men. A man to whom God gives riches, weal...
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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: The vanity of worldly wealth as pertaining only to the body.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: Man deprives himself of the good he might have had of his
worldly possessions by not cons...
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Ecclesiastes 6:2. _But a stranger eateth it._ The richer families in
Israel had often foreign servants, who rose to influence in their
master's house. But greater was the affliction from invading armi...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 6:3 Long life and many CHILDREN
are among earth’s greatest blessings, but a discontented heart will
be unsatisfied even with these....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 6:1. COMMON AMONG MEN] In the strict meaning of the word,
the reference is to the magnitude of the evil, and not to the
frequency of it. That which appears to be good is...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 6:1
Section 9. Koheleth proceeds to illustrate the fact which he stated at
the end of the last chapter, viz. that the possession and enjoyment of
wealth are alike the free gif...
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Now there is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it's common
among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so
that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires
(E...
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Job 14:1; Job 3:10; Psalms 58:8; Psalms 90:7...
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More rest — Because he is free from all those encumbrances and
vexations to which the covetuous man is long exposed....