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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:9

Two are better than one, for friendship, marriage, association in religious communion will tend to oppose selfishness; because they have a good reward for their labor, the advantage resulting from such associating with others being shown in the next. verses.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ecclesiastes 4:9. _TWO_ ARE _BETTER THAN ONE_] Married life is infinitely to be preferred to this kind of life, for the very reasons alleged below, and which require no explanation....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Two are better than one_ The strain of moralising which follows indicates at least the revived capacity for a better feeling. As the DEBATER had turned from the restless strivings of the seeker after...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BECAUSE THEY HAVE A GOOD REWARD— _Because they have a better reward for their common labour._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. Attain your riches for practical good. Ecclesiastes 4:7-12 TEXT 4:7-12 7 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. TWO (ARE) BETTER THAN ONE. Two-opposed to "one" (). Ties of union, marriage, friendship, religious communion, are better...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TWO more ills of life are covetousness aria loneliness....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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-...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    טֹובִ֥ים הַ שְּׁנַ֖יִם מִן ־הָ אֶחָ֑ד אֲשֶׁ֧ר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    YET THESE ARE CAPABLE OF A NOBLER MOTIVE AND MODE. Ecclesiastes 4:9 Now a jealous rivalry culminating in mere avarice, -that surely is not the wisest or noblest spirit of which those are capable who...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (f) Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. (f) As when man is alone, he can neither help himself nor others, he shows that men should live in mutual society to t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Therefore is not in Hebrew, &c. The miser had better have some society. It is advantageous; though to refrain from its comforts, out of piety, is not blamed. The solitary must be "an angel or a devil...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. (10) For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    TWO [ARE] BETTER THAN ONE,.... The wise man takes occasion, from the solitariness Of the covetous man before described, to show in this and some following verses the preferableness and advantages of s...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour._ Ver. 9. _Two are better than one._] Friendly society is far beyond that wretched "aloneness" of the covetous wretch; Ecc...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Two_ Or more, who live together in any kind of society, and join their powers together in pursuit of any important object; _are better than one_ Act more cheerfully, and accomplish their designs more...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE THEY HAVE. GOOD RETURN FOR THEIR LABOR."BETTER" -There is something 'better' then the poverty of the loner. All too often friendships and real companionship, and. good...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-12 Surely he has more satisfaction in life, who labours hard to maintain those he loves, than the miser has in his toil. In all things union tends to success and safety, but above all, the union of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TWO, who live together in any kind of society, and join their powers together in any enterprises; which he opposeth to that humour of the covetous man, who desired to live alone, as was now said. A GO...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two H8147 better H2896 one H259 have H3426 good H2896 reward H7939 labor H5999 are -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour._ THE NECESSITY AND BENEFITS OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETY I. Prove the truth of the wise man’s assertion, that, “two are better than...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    THREE'S BEST One alone. Ecclesiastes 4:8 (AV). Two are better than one. Ecclesiastes 4:9. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12. Instead of one text we are going to h

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 12:18; 2 John 1:8; Acts 13:2; Acts 15:39; Acts 15:40;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Two — Who live together in any kind of society. Because — Both have great benefit by such conjunction, whereby they support, encourage, and strengthen one another....

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