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Verse 16. _THE POOR MAN'S WISDOM_ IS _DESPISED, AND HIS WORDS ARE_
_NOT HEARD._] I cannot help pursuing this illustration a little
farther. The soldier who found Archimedes busily employed in drawing...
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2. PRAISE OF WISDOM AND PHILOSOPHY, THEFINAL WORD AND THE GREAT
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 9:13-18
Before he had declared that wisdom is strength. He comes back to this
statement and gives an illustration o...
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ECCLESIASTES 8:16 TO ECCLESIASTES 9:16. LIFE'S RIDDLE BAFFLES THE
WISEST QUEST. The parenthesis in Ecclesiastes 8:16_ b_ describes the
ceaseless effort of the keen student of life, or perhaps the fate
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_Wisdom is better than strength_ The maxim of ch. Ecclesiastes 7:19 is
reproduced, but it is traversed by the fact that the wisdom must often
be content to remain unrecognised. The power of the purse...
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DISCOURSE: 842
WISDOM NOTIONALLY APPROVED, BUT PRACTICALLY DISREGARDED
Ecclesiastes 9:14. There was a little city, and few men within it: and
there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and b...
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THEN SAID I, WISDOM IS BETTER, &C.— _Then said I, Wisdom is
preferable to power: Yet the wisdom of this experienced man is
despised, and his deeds are not mentioned._ We have here the _first
instance....
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6. Wisdom is declared to be the greatest guide in our work.
Ecclesiastes 9:13-18
TEXT 9:13-18
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Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me.
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There was a small city wi...
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor
man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
WISDOM IS BETTER THAN STRENGTH - resuming the sentiment in .
THE POOR MAN...
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LIVE WORTHILY WHILE YOU MAY
1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die....
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 9
EVERYONE MUST DIE AT SOME TIME – ECCLESIASTES 9:1-10...
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וְ אָמַ֣רְתִּי אָ֔נִי טֹובָ֥ה
חָכְמָ֖ה מִ גְּ
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THE CHIEF GOOD NOT TO BE FOUND IN WISDOM:
Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 9:1
1. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his
position and equipment as he starts on his final course...
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NOR IN DEVOTION TO AFFAIRS AND ITS REWARDS.
Ecclesiastes 9:13; Ecclesiastes 10:1
So far, then, Coheleth has been occupied in retracing the argument of
the first Section of the Book. Now he returns up...
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In view of the evidences of the truth of the affirmation, "vanity...
all is vanity," the preacher now turns to its effect on the mind of
the man living "under the sun." He extols this worldly wisdom,...
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_Heard? Ecclesiasticus xiii. 28. Men are so unjust as to despise
wisdom, if it be in a poor man. The prudence of an individual has
often saved cities, as was the case at Abela, and Bethulia; (2 Kings...
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor
man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. (17) The words
of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ru...
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_THE SAVIOUR OF THE CITY_
‘There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a
great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks
against it,’ etc.
Ecclesiastes 9:14
I. T...
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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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THEN SAID I, WISDOM [IS] BETTER THAN STRENGTH,.... Wisdom of mind,
even in a poor man, is better than strength of body, even of the, most
potent prince and powerful army, as may be concluded from the...
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Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor
man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard.
Ver. 16. _Then said I, Wisdom is better, &c._] This he had said
before, E...
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_This wisdom have I seen_ I have observed this among many other
instances and effects of wisdom. Which he adds for the commendation of
wisdom, notwithstanding its insufficiency for man's safety and
ha...
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength, that fact being
universally conceded; NEVERTHELESS THE POOR MAN'S WISDOM IS DESPISED,
AND HIS WORDS ARE NOT HEARD, his counsel is ignored....
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WISDOM STILL TO BE SOUGHT...
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"SO. SAID, 'WISDOM IS BETTER THAN STRENGTH.' BUT THE WISDOM OF THE
POOR MAN IS DESPISED AND HIS WORDS ARE NOT HEEDED."
In the above case, wisdom had everything against it, small defenses,
resources,....
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13-18 A man may, by his wisdom, bring to pass that which he could
never do by his strength. If God be for us, who can be against us, or
stand before us? Solomon observes the power of wisdom, though i...
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WISDOM IS BETTER THAN STRENGTH, as was manifest in the foregoing
instance. THE POOR MAN'S WISDOM IS DESPISED, because men are generally
vain and foolish, and have a greater value for outward ornaments...
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Ecclesiastes 9:16 said H559 (H8804) Wisdom H2451 better H2896 strength
H1369 mans H4542 wisdom H2451 despised H9
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A PARABLE OF WISDOM AND INGRATITUDE (ECCLESIASTES 9:13).
Ecclesiastes 9:13
‘I have seen also wisdom under the sun like this. There was a small
city and few men in it. And there came a great king agai...
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CHAPTER 9 THE SAME THINGS HAPPEN TO ALL WHETHER THEY BE RIGHTEOUS,
WISE OR SONS OF MEN. AND IN THE END ALL DIE IN THE SAME WAY. SO LET
THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE LIFE AS THEY MAY AND ENJOY IT FOR GOD HAS ACCE...
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Ecclesiastes 9:14
I. The little city. At first sight it may seem rather paradoxical to
compare this great world of ours, with its almost innumerable
inhabitants, its vast area, its enormous resources,...
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Ecclesiastes 8:16-10
I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth
points out that it is impossible for us to construct a satisfactory
policy of life. "The work of God," or, as...
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CONTENTS: The universality of death and the need of minding the
business of life and using wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: While there is life there is opportunity of preparing for
dea...
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Ecclesiastes 9:5. _The dead know not any thing._ This is explained by
the next phrase, _the memory of them is forgotten._ Elijah went up to
heaven, or paradise, as the Jews will have it. John 3:13. Si...
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_There was a little city, and few men within it._
THE LITTLE CITY AND THE POOR WISE MAN
The little city, as first introduced to our notice, is in sore
straits. The legion of the foe seem innumerable,...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 9:13 Wisdom can achieve much good
and is worth pursuing. Yet its benefits can be undone by evil.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 9:13. THIS WISDOM.] The special instance of the power of
wisdom related in the next verse.
ECCLESIASTES 9:14. FEW MEN WITHIN IT.] Not a city with a scanty
population, b...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 9:1
One fate happens to all, and the dead are cut off from all the
feelings and interests of life in the upper world.
ECCLESIASTES 9:1
This continues the subject treated abo...
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For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that
the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God:
no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them...