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Verse Ecclesiastes 4:4. _FOR THIS A MAN IS ENVIED_] It is not by
injustice and wrong only that men suffer, but through _envy_ also. For
if a man act uprightly and properly in the world, he soon becom...
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EVERY RIGHT WORK - Rather, every success in work.
FOR THIS ... - i. e., “This successful work makes the worker an
object of envy.” Some understand the meaning to be, “this work is
the effect of the r...
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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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TRAVAIL. toil, as connected with trouble, sorrow. Not the same word as
in Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Ecclesiastes 2:26;...
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_I considered all travail, and every right work_ The "right work," as
in ch. Ecclesiastes 2:21, is that which is DEXTEROUS and successful,
without any marked reference to its moral character. Men exul...
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2. Keep your motive for work pure. Ecclesiastes 4:4-6
TEXT 4:4-6
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And I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the
result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too i...
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Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this
a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of
spirit.
EVERY RIGHT WORK ... FOR THIS A MAN IS ENVIED - ra...
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4:4 success (i-8) Or 'skilfulness,' as ch. 2.21....
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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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RIGHT] RV 'skilful,' RM 'successful.' FOR THIS.. NEIGHBOUR] RM 'it
cometh of a man's rivalry with his neighbour.' Effort is stimulated by
competition, but then what man has gained by toil is marred by...
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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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RIGHT WORK. — Rather, _skilful._ (See Note on Ecclesiastes 2:21.)...
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וְ רָאִ֨יתִֽי אֲנִ֜י אֶת ־כָּל
־עָמָ֗ל וְ
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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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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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DEVOTION TO BUSINESS SPRINGS FROM JEALOUS COMPETITION:
Ecclesiastes 4:4
(a) Let us glance once more at the several symptoms we have already
heard him discuss, and consider whether or not they accord...
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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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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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Again, I considered all labour, and every (d) right work, that for
this a man is envied by his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and
vexation of spirit.
(d) The more perfect that the work is, the more...
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_Industries, or Hebrew, "righteous actions." If one be poor, he is in
distress; if rich, he is exposed to envy; so that all is vanity.
(Calmet)_...
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Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath
not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. (4) Again, I
considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is...
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_A DISAPPOINTING WORLD_
‘Vanity and vexation of spirit.’
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Among the examples in proof of the imperfection and inconstancy of
earthly happiness which the Preacher communicates in the...
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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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AGAIN I CONSIDERED ALL TRAVAIL, AND EVERY RIGHT WORK,.... The pains
that men take to do right works. Some apply themselves, with great
diligence and industry, to the study of the liberal arts and scie...
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Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a
man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of
spirit.
Ver. 4. _That for this a man is envied of his neig...
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_Again I considered all travail_ Hebrew כל עמל, _all the labour,
toil_, or _trouble_, which men undertake or undergo; _and every right
work_ All the worthy designs of virtuous men; _that for this a ma...
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Again, I considered all travail and every right work, the prosperity
coveted by men, the source and motive of so much of the oppression
found in the world, THAT FOR THIS, namely, for his apparent succ...
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PERSONAL MISFORTUNES...
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EVERY RIGHT WORK:
_ Heb._ all the rightness of work
FOR THIS A MAN IS ENVIED OF HIS NEIGHBOUR:
_ Heb._ this is the envy of a man from his neighbour...
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"AND. HAVE SEEN THAT EVERY LABOR AND EVERY SKILL WHICH IS DONE IS THE
RESULT OF RIVALRY BETWEEN. MAN AND HIS NEIGHBOR. THIS TOO IS VANITY
AND STRIVING AFTER WIND."
"is done is the result of rivalry...
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4-6 Solomon notices the sources of trouble peculiar to well-doers,
and includes all who labour with diligence, and whose efforts are
crowned with success. They often become great and prosperous, but...
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Ecclesiastes 4:4 saw H7200 (H8804) toil H5999 skillful H3788 work
H4639 man H376 envied H7068 neighbor H7453 v
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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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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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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 4:4 Much of what is achieved by
human ability stems FROM A MAN’S ENVY OF HIS NEIGHBOR. Here the
Preacher focuses on the VANITY that comes to those who make such...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 4:5. EATETH HIS OWN FLESH.] Accomplishes his own ruin by
indolence, exhausts his fortune, preys upon himself like one mad with
hunger.
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH...
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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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1 John 3:12; Acts 7:9; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 2:21;...
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Right work — All the worthy designs of virtuous men. Envied —
Instead of honour, he meets with envy and obloquy....