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HE ... HIS - Rather, it ... its. The untimely birth is spoken of....
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CHAPTER 6 DISHEARTENING CONTRADICTIONS
_ 1. Riches--Inability to enjoy them (Ecclesiastes 6:1)_
2. Having All--Yet no fill of the soul (Ecclesiastes 6:3)
3. The sad ending wail (Eccle
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ECCLESIASTES 6. FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON WEALTH AND FATE. Parallel with
the bitter experience of the avaricious man who loses his wealth is
that of the rich and successful man whose cherished desires ar...
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HE COMETH: i.e. in the untimely birth of Ecclesiastes 6:3....
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_he cometh in with vanity_ The pronoun in the English Version refers
the clause to the man who has heaped up riches, and had a long life
with no real enjoyment. Probably, however, the words describe,...
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FOR HE COMETH IN WITH VANITY, &C.— _For it is in vain he came, and
he shall depart in darkness._...
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2. It is possible to possess riches which cannot be enjoyed.
Ecclesiastes 6:1-6
TEXT 6:1-6
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent
among men
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a man to whom God has...
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For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name
shall be covered with darkness.
FOR HE - rather, it, the "untimely birth."
COMETH IN WITH VANITY - to no purpose; a type of...
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LIFE AN ENIGMA
1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
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HE] RV 'it,' i.e. the untimely birth: so in Ecclesiastes 6:5....
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 6
A PERSON’S LIFE THAT IS NOT SATISFACTORY – ECCLESIASTES 6:1-6...
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HE. — Rather, _it — _viz., the untimely birth....
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כִּֽי ־בַ † הֶ֥בֶל בָּ֖א וּ בַ...
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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 knows prosperity experimentally far better than poverty.
Moreover, by observation he is more familiar with men of wealth than
with poor men, and, therefore, he returns to a declaration of...
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For (d) he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name
shall be covered with darkness.
(d) Meaning, the untimely fruit whose life neither profited nor hurt
any....
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_He. The infant, though some explain it of the miser. (Calmet)_...
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If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the
days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and
also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth 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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FOR HE COMETH IN WITH VANITY,.... The Targum adds, "into this world."
Some understand this of the abortive, and render it, "though he cometh
in with vanity" x, yet is to be preferred to the covetous m...
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For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name
shall be covered with darkness.
Ver. 4. _For he cometh in with vanity, &c._] As nothing, being
senseless of good or evil. "And de...
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_If a man beget a hundred children_ Very many, to whom he intends to
leave his estate; _and live many years_ Which is the chief thing that
he desires, and which gives him opportunity of increasing his...
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For he cometh in with vanity, naked, poor, into an empty existence,
AND DEPARTETH IN DARKNESS, into a future which holds no hope for him,
AND HIS NAME SHALL BE COVERED WITH DARKNESS, assigned to utter...
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OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES....
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"FOR IT COMES IN FUTILITY AND GOES INTO OBSCURITY; AND ITS NAME IS
COVERED IN OBSCURITY".
The stillborn or miscarriage comes in futility, i.e. comes for no
purpose. The miscarriage or stillborn is (st...
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1-6 A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord
leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no
good or comfortable use of what he has. By one means or other...
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FOR; or rather, _although_, as this particle is frequently rendered.
For this verse seems to contain not so much a reason of what he last
said, _that an untimely birth is better than he_, as an answer...
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LIFE IS NOT ENJOYABLE TO EVEN SOME OF THE RICH (ECCLESIASTES 6:1).
Ecclesiastes 6:1
‘There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies
heavily on men. A man to whom God gives riches, weal...
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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 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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CONTENTS: The vanity of worldly wealth as pertaining only to the body.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: Man deprives himself of the good he might have had of his
worldly possessions by not cons...
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Ecclesiastes 6:2. _But a stranger eateth it._ The richer families in
Israel had often foreign servants, who rose to influence in their
master's house. But greater was the affliction from invading armi...
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_If a man live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and
his soul be not filled with good, I say that an untimely birth is
better than he._
THE SORROWS OF OLD AGE
The wise Preacher supp...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 6:3 Long life and many CHILDREN
are among earth’s greatest blessings, but a discontented heart will
be unsatisfied even with these....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 6:1. COMMON AMONG MEN] In the strict meaning of the word,
the reference is to the magnitude of the evil, and not to the
frequency of it. That which appears to be good is...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 6:1
Section 9. Koheleth proceeds to illustrate the fact which he stated at
the end of the last chapter, viz. that the possession and enjoyment of
wealth are alike the free gif...
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Now there is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it's common
among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so
that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires
(E...
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Psalms 109:13...
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He — The abortive; of whom alone, that passage is true, hath not
seen the sun, Ecclesiastes 6:5. Cometh — Into the world. In vain —
To no purpose; without any comfort or benefit by it. Departeth —
Wit...