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Verse Ecclesiastes 3:9. _WHAT PROFIT HATH HE_] What real good, what
solid pleasure, is derived from all the labours of man? _Necessity_
drives him to the principal part of his _cares_ and _toils_; he...
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2. FURTHER RESULTS OF THE SEARCH
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The times of man under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3:1)_
2. When then is the good? (Ecclesiastes 3:12)
3. Concerning judgment and the future ...
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From one point of view this section may be entitled _In Praise of
Opportunism,_ from another _Human Helplessness._ Every action in which
man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure tha...
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LABOURETH. toileth....
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_What profit hath he that worketh?_ The long induction is completed,
and yet is followed by the same despairing question as that of ch.
Ecclesiastes 1:3, asked as from a stand-point that commands a wi...
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WHAT PROFIT HATH HE THAT WORKETH, &C.— _What remaineth to him that
worketh from that upon which he bestoweth his labour?_ The consequence
of the preceding proof is obvious. It is not in the power of m...
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2. Working outside the framework of God's providence results in
frustration and defeat. Ecclesiastes 3:9-22
TEXT 3:9-22
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What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?
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I have...
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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
WHAT PROFIT HATH HE THAT WORKETH? But these earthly pursuits, while
lawful in their season, are 'unprofitable' when made by man, what...
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3:9 laboureth? (a-11) Or 'from the labour with which he worries
himself.'...
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WHAT PROFIT] how can he be sure that he has found the right season?...
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THE PRACTICAL IDEAL. ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNIVERSAL SCHEME
1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set
himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture,
pleasure, are al...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 3
A POEM ABOUT TIME – ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8...
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מַה ־יִּתְרֹון֙ הָֽ עֹושֶׂ֔ה בַּ
אֲשֶׁ֖ר ה֥וּ
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THE QUEST OBSTRUCTED BY DIVINE ORDINANCES.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
The time of birth, for instance, and the time of death, are ordained
by a Power over which men have no control; they begin to be, and they...
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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 vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the
experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he
has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of that...
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_Labour? What advantage does he derive from any of these things?
(Chap. i. 3.) (Calmet)_...
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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? (10) I
have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be
exercised in it. (11) He hath made everything beautiful in hi...
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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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WHAT PROFIT HATH HE THAT WORKETH IN THAT WHEREIN HE LABOURETH?] That
is, he has none. This is an inference drawn from the above premises,
and confirms what has been before observed, Ecclesiastes 1:3;...
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_What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?_
Ver. 9. _What profit hath he that worketh? &c._] _i.e., _ How can any
man, by any means he can use, help or hinder this volubility and...
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_What profit hath he that worketh_, &c. Seeing then all events are out
of man's power, and no man can do or enjoy any thing at his pleasure,
but only when God pleaseth, as has been shown in many parti...
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"WHAT PROFIT IS THERE TO THE WORKER FROM THAT IN WHICH HE TOILS?"
That is, what true or lasting profit? For all the events in
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 are often momentary or temporary. Once again, we
return...
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1-10 To expect unchanging happiness in a changing world, must end in
disappointment. To bring ourselves to our state in life, is our duty
and wisdom in this world. God's whole plan for the government...
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Seeing then all actions and events in the world are out of man's
power, and no man can at any time do or enjoy any thing at his
pleasure, but only what and when God pleaseth, as hath been now shown
in...
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Ecclesiastes 3:9 profit H3504 worker H6213 (H8802) which H834 labors
H6001
Ecclesiastes 1:3,...
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MUSINGS ON MAN'S WORK (ECCLESIASTES 3:9).
Ecclesiastes 3:9
‘What profit has the workman in that in which he labours?
We return here to the question of purposelessness. The workman who
labours gains...
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Ecclesiastes 1:12-3
Koheleth now mentions the unusual advantages which he had possessed
for enjoying life and making the best of it. His opportunities could
not have been greater, he considers, had h...
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this
arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him.
"He hath made everything beautiful in its time,...
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CONTENTS: The mutability of all human affairs and the unchangeableness
and unsearchableness of the divine counsels.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: We live in a world of changes. The events of...
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Ecclesiastes 3:1. _To every thing there is a season._ The seasons of
the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9., divides the times into
twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandm...
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_What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?_
AUTUMN MUSINGS
Autumn is a time which has its meaning, as well as its appropriate
duties. Its deep suggestiveness is written upon the...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:9 Fear God, the Sovereign One.
The vanity of life causes the Preacher to reflect on what is permanent
and lasting: the sovereign God of the universe....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 3:11. IN HIS TIME.] This is the emphatic part of the
sentence. The fitting time is one of the chief elements in the ways of
Providence, which raises in us the thought of...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 3:1
Section 4. In confirmation of the truth that man's happiness depends
upon the will of God, Koheleth proceeds to show how _Providence
arranges even the minutest concerns;...
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Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used
poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and
it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was
mono...
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Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 2:11; Ecclesiastes 2:22; Ecclesiastes
2:23;...
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WHAT IS GOOD IN THIS LIFE
Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We come now to the second great question in the Book of Ecclesiastes.
It is expressed in Chapter s 6 and 12: "Who kno...
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What profit — Seeing then all events are out of man's power, and no
man can do or enjoy any thing at his pleasure, but only when God
pleaseth, as has been shewed in many particulars, and is as true an...