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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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PROFIT. advantage.
LABOURED. toiled.
WIND Hebrew. _ruach_....
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_what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?_ The
ever-recurring question (ch. Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 2:22;
Ecclesiastes 3:9) rises once again, "What profit?" In "labouring for
the wi...
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b. They may be harmful. Ecclesiastes 5:13-17
TEXT 5:13-17
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There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being
hoarded by their owner to their hurt.
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When those riches were...
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As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as
he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away
in his hand.
NOTHING OF (NOT WITHSTANDING) HIS LABOUR .....
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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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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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_[Ecclesiastes 5:15]_ וְ גַם ־זֹה֙ רָעָ֣ה
חֹולָ֔ה...
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PRACTICAL MAXIMS DEDUCED FROM THIS VIEW OF THE BUSINESS LIFE.
(b) A noble philosophy this, and pregnant with practical counsels of
great value. For if, as we close our study of this Section of the
Bo...
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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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AND A MORE HELPFUL AND CONSOLATORY TRUST IN THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
Not content with this, however, the Preacher goes on to show how, when
they returned from the House of God to the c...
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AND TO TAKE FROM LIFE ITS QUIET AND INNOCENT ENJOYMENTS.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
(e) Now surely a life so thick with perils, so beset with temptations,
should have a very large and certain reward to offer....
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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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And this also [is] a grievous evil, [that] in all points as he came,
so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the (m)
wind?
(m) Meaning, in vain and without profit....
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_Sorrow. The person whose riches have been taken away, had made a bad
use of them, (Calmet) living like a miser. It would be more rational
to indulge in the pleasures which they afford, though this is...
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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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AND THIS ALSO [IS] A SORE EVIL, [THAT] IN ALL POINTS AS HE CAME, SO
SHALL HE GO,.... This seems not to be an evil or vanity, distinct from
the former; but the same repeated and confirmed, and expresse...
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And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so
shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
Ver. 16. _And this also is a sore evil._] _Malum dolorificum,...
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_As he came forth, &c., naked shall he return_ Into the womb, or belly
of the earth, the common mother of all mankind. _And shall take
nothing of his labour_ This is another vanity. If his estate be
n...
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And this also is a sore evil, not only the fact that the rich must
leave all his wealth behind, but that he is subject to death, as are
all human beings, THAT IN ALL POINTS AS HE CAME, SO SHALL HE GO,...
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ABSTAINING FROM VICES AND FOSTERING VIRTUES...
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"AND THIS ALSO IS. GRIEVOUS EVIL---EXACTLY AS. MAN IS BORN, THUS WILL
HE DIE. SO, WHAT ADVANTAGE TO HIM WHO TOILS FOR THE WIND?"THIS IS
ALSO. GRIEVOUS EVIL" -One can almost hear the exclamation, "It i...
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9-17 The goodness of Providence is more equally distributed than
appears to a careless observer. The king needs the common things of
life, and the poor share them; they relish their morsel better tha...
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Ecclesiastes 5:16 this H2090 severe H2470 (H8802) exactly H5980 came
H935 (H8804) go H3212 (H8799) profit...
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THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BURDENS AND PROBLEMS OF WEALTH (ECCLESIASTES 5:8).
Here we find a total contrast to the first seven verses. There the
thought was of attitude towards God. Now we move on to the atti...
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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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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 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: 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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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 5:13. TO THEIR HURT] Inasmuch as they, at length, lose
those possessions (Ecclesiastes 5:14). The owner is more unhappy than
if he had never possessed at all.
Eccl
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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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1 Samuel 12:21; Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 2:22; Ecclesiastes
2:23;...
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The wind — For riches, which are empty and unsatisfying, uncertain
and transitory, which no man can hold or stay in its course, all which
are the properties of the wind....