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Verse 14. _IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE JOYFUL_] When ye receive these
temporal gifts from God, enjoy them, and be thankful to the Giver: but
remember, this sunshine will not _always_ last. God has bal...
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Good and prosperous days are in God’s design special times of
comfort and rejoicing: the days of affliction and trouble, are in
God’s design the proper seasons of recollection and serious
consideratio...
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PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12
1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure
CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_
2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15)
3. The strength...
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PROVERBS AND REFLECTIONS. After asking, What is good for man in life?
(Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do
by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisab...
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FIND. discover....
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_In the day of prosperity be joyful_ Literally, IN THE DAY OF GOOD, BE
IN GOOD, _i.e._use it as it should be used. True wisdom, the teacher
urges, is found in a man's enjoying whatever good actually c...
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IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE JOYFUL— _In the day of prosperity enjoy
it; but in the day of adversity, consider also that God hath made it
in opposition to the other, to the end that man should not find...
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j. Trusting God for tomorrow is better than knowing about tomorrow.
Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
TEXT 7:13-14
13
Consider the work of God, for who is able to straighten what He has
bent?
14
In the day of...
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity
consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end
that man should find nothing after him.
IN THE DAY OF PROSPER...
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7:14 good, (c-7) Or 'be in prosperity.'...
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PRACTICAL APHORISMS
1-6. Things useful to remember in life. The writer has just warned as
that we cannot rely on either the present or the future. We can,
however, guide ourselves in the conduct of l...
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CONSIDER] Ask yourself what you may learn from it. OVER AGAINST] RV
'side by side with.' Both run through the course of human life. TO THE
END, etc.] So that we cannot forecast the part which the one...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 7
The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many
special sent...
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Ecclus. 14:14, 33. The first clause may be more closely rendered,
“In the good day be of good cheer.” As a consolation in time of
adversity the thought Job 2:10 is offered. The last clause connects
it...
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בְּ יֹ֤ום טֹובָה֙ הֱיֵ֣ה בְ טֹ֔וב וּ
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THIRD SECTION
The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean
Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1
IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the C
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The preacher now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward
all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least
likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of maxi...
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity (i)
consider: God also hath appointed the one as well as the other, to the
end that man should find (k) nothing after him.
(i) Consider...
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_Despised. God never neglects first. (Council of Trent, Session vi.
11.) --- He detests sin, and at last abandons the obstinate, though he
never fails to offer sufficient graces. A person who is of an...
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Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them
that see the sun. (12) For wisdom is a defence, and money is a
defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth lif...
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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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IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE JOYFUL,.... Or, "in a good day" q. When
things go well in the commonwealth, in a man's family, and with
himself, health, peace, and plenty, are enjoyed, a man's circumstanc...
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity
consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end
that man should find nothing after him.
Ver. 14. _In the day of...
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_In the day of prosperity be joyful_ Enjoy God's favours with
thankfulness. _In the day of adversity consider_ Namely, God's work,
that it is his hand, and therefore submit to it: consider also why he...
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CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD AND THE SPIRIT OF CALM RESIGNATION...
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, enjoying God's blessings with due
thankfulness, BUT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY CONSIDER, regard most
carefully, let your thoughts run along these lines; GOD ALSO HATH...
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SET:
_ Heb._ made...
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"IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE HAPPY, BUT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY
CONSIDER----GOD HAS MADE THE ONE AS WELL AS THE OTHER SO THAT MAN MAY
NOT DISCOVER ANYTHING THAT WILL BE AFTER HIM."BE HAPPY….CONSIDER...
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11-22 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yea better. It shelters
from the storms and scorching heat of trouble. Wealth will not
lengthen out the natural life; but true wisdom will give spiritual
li...
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BE JOYFUL; enjoy God's favours with cheerfulness and thankfulness.
CONSIDER, to wit, God's work, which is easily understood out of the
foregoing verse. Consider that it is God's hand, and therefore su...
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Ecclesiastes 7:14 day H3117 prosperity H2896 joyful H2896 day H3117
adversity H7451 consider H7200 (H8798) God...
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BUT WISDOM INCLUDES A RECOGNITION THAT WE CANNOT INTERFERE WITH GOD'S
DOINGS. THUS WE MUST ACCEPT FROM GOD WHAT HE IS PLEASED TO GIVE
(ECCLESIASTES 7:13).
Ecclesiastes 7:13
‘Consider the work of God...
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THE IMPORTANCE OF PRACTICAL WISDOM (ECCLESIASTES 7:11).
Wisdom As A Defence (Ecclesiastes 7:11).
Having wisdom is a good foundation for life, for it provides a form of
defence in times of trouble, a...
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CHAPTER 7 IT IS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF DEATH, TO LISTEN TO REBUKE, TO
BEHAVE WISELY, EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THE WORLD IS FULL OF
WICKEDNESS.
The emphasis of the book from now on includes the tho...
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Ecclesiastes 7:14
The wise Preacher is speaking here of the right use of the changeful
phenomena and conditions of man's life on earth. God sets prosperity
over against adversity, and He does this tha...
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Ecclesiastes 7 and ECCLESIASTES 8:1
I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but
most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities
He has given us and the opp...
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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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CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the
vanity and vexation of the world.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the
v...
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Ecclesiastes 7:1. _A good name is better than precious ointment._
Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of
bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48. Wisdom and virtue outlive t...
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_Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight which He
hath made crooked?_
THE POWER OF GOD, AND THE DUTY OF MAN
I. What we are to understand by “the work of God.” This is an
expression o...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 7:11. WISDOM IS GOOD WITH AN INHERITANCE] Wisdom, though
good in itself, yet when joined with ample means imparts a power of
doing good to others.
ECCLESIASTES 7:12. WIS...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 7:1
Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED
EXPERIENCES IN THE
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Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning
with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again,
it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...
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1 Kings 17:17; 1 Kings 17:18; 1 Kings 8:47; 2 Chronicles 33:12;...