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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 7 - Introduction

* The benefit of a good name; of death above life; of sorrow above vain mirth. (1-6) Concerning oppression, anger, and discontent. (7-10) Advantages of wisdom. (11-22) Experience of the evil of sin. (23-29)

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See also Ecclesiastes 7 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Ecclesiastes 7 and Ecclesiastes 10 show a striking resemblance to the style of the writer of the Book of Proverbs. Hereto the principal object has been to state the vanity of the conditions of human l...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _REMEDIES AGAINST VANITY ARE, MORTIFICATION, PATIENCE, WISDOM. THE DIFFICULTY OF GETTING WISDOM._...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 Preacher, (e-5) Strictly, 'a former of assemblies;' see for the sense, though not the same expression, ch. 12.11....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    VII In the sections immediately following, the continuity of the history of the Preacher’s mental struggles is broken by the introduction of a number of proverbs, some of which have so little apparent...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES 7 The wise man having exposed the many vanities to which men are subject in this life, and showed that there is no real happiness in all outward enjoyments under the sun;...

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

    _A.M. 3027. B.C. 977._ Having discoursed, in the foregoing part of this book, of the vain courses men take to make themselves happy; Solomon now proceeds to prescribe the best remedies that can be fo...

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