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Verse 13. _RICHES KEPT FOR THE OWNERS THEREOF TO THEIR HURT._] This
may be the case through various causes:
1. He may make an improper use of them, and lose his health by them.
2. He may join in an...
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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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UNDER THE SUN. See note on Ecclesiastes 1:3....
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_riches kept for the owners thereof_ Yet another aspect of the evils
attendant on riches is brought before us, as in ch. Ecclesiastes
2:18-19. Not only do they fail to give any satisfying joy, but the...
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THERE IS A SORE EVIL— _There is an aggravation of evil:_ see
Ecclesiastes 5:16 and ch. Ecclesiastes 6:2. This verse contains the
second general proposition. Earthly goods, and whatever we can acquire...
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b. They may be harmful. Ecclesiastes 5:13-17
TEXT 5:13-17
13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being
hoarded by their owner to their hurt.
14
When those riches were...
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There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches
kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
A SORE EVIL ... Proofs of God's judgments even in this world (). The
rich oppressor's...
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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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SORE EVIL. — Ecclesiastes 6:2; Jeremiah 14:17; Nahum 3:19....
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_[Ecclesiastes 5:12]_ יֵ֚שׁ רָעָ֣ה חֹולָ֔ה
רָאִ֖יתִי תַּ֣חַת
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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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There is a grievous evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely],
riches (k) kept for the owners of them to their hurt.
(k) When covetous men heap up riches, which turn to their destruction....
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_Affliction. Hebrew, "by an evil affair," or accident. (Calmet) ---
Who. Hebrew, "and there is nothing in his hand." (Haydock) --- As
temporal riches prove detrimental to their owners, so do false
phi...
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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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THERE IS A SORE EVIL [WHICH] I HAVE SEEN UNDER THE SUN,.... Or "an
evil sickness" m. A sinful disease in the person with whom it is
found, and very disagreeable to others to behold; it is enough to ma...
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_There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely],
riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt._
Ver. 13. _There is a sore evil._] Or, An evil disease, _a_ such as
breaks the sle...
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_There is a sore evil_, &c. “There is another thing, which is very
calamitous, and may rather be called a grievous plague than a mere
affliction; that these very treasures, which men have heaped up wi...
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There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches
kept for the owners thereof to their hurt, carefully taken care of by
guardians, but later a snare to the possessors, plunging them...
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ABSTAINING FROM VICES AND FOSTERING VIRTUES...
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"THERE IS. GRIEVOUS EVIL WHICH. HAVE SEEN UNDER THE SUN: RICHES BEING
HOARDED BY THEIR OWNER TO HIS HURT....
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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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Because they frequently are the instruments and occasions both of
their present and eternal destruction, as they feed their pride or
luxury, or other hurtful lusts, which waste the body, and shorten t...
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Ecclesiastes 5:13 is H3426 severe H2470 (H8802) evil H7451 seen H7200
(H8804) sun H8121 Riches H6239 kept
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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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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 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 6:1;...
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To their hurt — Because they frequently are the occasions both of
their present and eternal destruction....