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Verse Ecclesiastes 4:3. _WHICH HATH NOT YET BEEN_] Better never to
have been born into the world, than to have _seen_ and _suffered_ so
many miseries....
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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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BETTER. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:24....
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_Yea, better is he than both they_ As the utterance of a personal
feeling of despair we have a parallel in the words of Job
(Ecclesiastes 3:11-16). As expressing a more generalised view of life
we hav...
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YEA, BETTER IS HE THAN BOTH THEY— _Nay, I say, he is happier than
either, who is not yet come to life, who hath not seen the misery that
prevaileth under the sun._ Desvoeux.
_ECCLESIASTES 4:4. AGAIN,...
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C. GUIDELINES FOR WORKING WITH GOD UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES
Ecclesiastes 4:1-16
1. How to work under oppression Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
TEXT 4:1-3
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Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression whic...
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Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath
not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
WHO HATH NOT SEEN - nor experienced....
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4:3 fortunate (h-3) Or 'better.'...
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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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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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וְ טֹוב֙ מִ שְּׁנֵיהֶ֔ם אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר
־עֲדֶ֖ן
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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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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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Yea, (c) better [is he] than both they, who hath not yet been, who
hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
(c) He speaks according to the judgment of the flesh which cannot
abide to f...
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_Born. It is better to have no existence than to be in eternal misery,
Matthew xxvi. 24. But the affliction of the just procureth glory for
them. (Worthington) --- The pagan sages observed, that it wa...
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Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath
not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. (4) Again, I
considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is...
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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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YEA, BETTER [IS HE] THAN BOTH THEY WHICH HATH NOT YET BEEN,.... That
is, an unborn person; who is preferred both to the dead that have seen
oppression, and to the living that are under it; see Job 3:1...
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Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath
not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ver. 3. _Yea, better is he than both they._] The heathen could say,
_Optimum n...
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_Wherefore I praised the dead_, &c. I judged them less miserable. For
this is certain, that setting aside the future life, which Solomon
doth not meddle with in the present debate, and considering the...
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PERSONAL MISFORTUNES...
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Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath
not seen the evil work that is done under the sun, for, not having
been born, he has been spared the pain of witnessing the many
evi...
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"BUT BETTER OFF THAN BOTH OF THEM IS THE ONE WHO HAS NEVER EXISTED,
WHO HAS NEVER SEEN THE EVIL ACTIVITY THAT IS DONE UNDER THE SUN."
Points To Note:
1 If this life is all there is, then it would be...
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1-3 It grieved Solomon to see might prevail against right. Wherever
we turn, we see melancholy proofs of the wickedness and misery of
mankind, who try to create trouble to themselves and to each othe...
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WHICH HATH NOT YET BEEN; who was never born. How this is true, see on
the foregoing verse. NOT SEEN, i.e. not felt; for as _seeing good_ is
put for enjoying it, ECCLESIASTES 2:24, so seeing evil is pu...
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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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THE DREADFULNESS OF OPPRESSION (ECCLESIASTES 4:1).
Having been faced up to the injustice in the world, and especially the
injustice in its courts of justice, the Preacher now turns to consider
oppres...
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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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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 4:2 Some people’s circumstances
are so tragic that they welcome death. The Preacher considers those
who have not yet lived to be the most fortunate. This is because t...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 4:1. SO I RETURNED.] Passing from the reflections of the
last chapter to a new subject of contemplation. _They had no
comforter_. The repetition of this phrase is intend...
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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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Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Jeremiah
20:17;...
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Better is he — Who was never born. Not seen — Not felt: for as
seeing good is put for enjoying it, so seeing evil is put for
suffering it....