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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...
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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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3. Attain your riches for practical good. Ecclesiastes 4:7-12
TEXT 4:7-12
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Then I looked again at vanity under the sun.
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There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor
a b...
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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 to help him up.
IF THEY FALL - if the one or other fall, as may happen to
b...
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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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TWO more ills of life are covetousness aria loneliness....
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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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WOE. — The word occurs only here and in Ecclesiastes 10:16, but is
common in post-Biblical Hebrew....
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כִּ֣י אִם ־יִפֹּ֔לוּ הָ אֶחָ֖ד
יָקִ֣ים אֶת
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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 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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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...
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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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_Fall into sickness, poverty, or sin. The saints have withdrawn people
from the dangers of the world into monasteries, where they may fight
together against the devil._...
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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...
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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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FOR IF THEY FALL, THE ONE WILL LIFT UP HIS FELLOW,.... That is, if
anyone of them fall, the other will lift him up, as they are
travelling together, in whatsoever manner; if one falls from his
horse,...
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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 to help him
up.
Ver. 10. _For if they fall, the one will lift up his fello...
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_For, if they fall_ If one or more of them fall in any way; as into
any mistakes, and errors, or sins, dangers, or distresses. _The one
will lift up his fellow_ Will hold him up, if he be falling, or...
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For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow, a second one always
being present to aid the one stumbling; BUT WOE TO HIM THAT IS ALONE
WHEN HE FALLETH; FOR HE HATH NOT ANOTHER TO HELP HIM UP, he...
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EVILS OF SOCIAL AND CIVIL LIFE...
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"FOR IF EITHER OF THEM FALLS, THE ONE WILL LIFT UP HIS COMPANION. BUT
WOE TO THE ONE WHO FALLS WHEN THERE IS NOT ANOTHER TO LIFT HIM UP."
The person who can't trust anyone or is suspect towards those...
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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...
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THEY; one of them, the plural being put for the singular, as JONAH 1:5
MATTHEW 21:7 1 TIMOTHY 2:15. Or both of them successively. FALL, in
any kind, into any mistakes and errors, or sins, or dangers a...
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Ecclesiastes 4:10 fall H5307 (H8799) one H259 up H6965 (H8686)
companion H2270 woe H337 alone H259 falls...
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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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_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...
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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
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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...
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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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They — One of them. Fall — Into any mistake, or sin, or danger....