Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Ecclesiastes 11:8
But if a man live many years— Yet, if a man was to live many years in a continual enjoyment of pleasure, and should remember that the days of darkness shall be many; all that is past is vanity.
But if a man live many years— Yet, if a man was to live many years in a continual enjoyment of pleasure, and should remember that the days of darkness shall be many; all that is past is vanity.
Verse Ecclesiastes 11:8. _IF A MAN LIVE MANY YEARS_] And even have _prosperity_ through the whole; yet the _days of darkness_-times of affliction, weakness, and perhaps _old age, will be many_. If he...
The preceding exhortation to a life of labor in the sight of God is now addressed especially to the active and the young; and is enforced by another consideration, namely, the transitory character of...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Proverbs concerning man's work(Ecclesiastes 11:1)_ 2. The vanity of life (Ecclesiastes 11:7) Ecclesiastes 11:1. These continued proverbs concern the work of m
ECCLESIASTES 11:1 TO ECCLESIASTES 12:8. CLOSING COUNSELS. It is well to do and to get all one can, in the way of industry and pleasure, before old age draws on. Ecclesiastes 11:1 and...
MAN. Hebrew. _'adam_ (with Art.) App-14. See note on Ecclesiastes 1:13. AND REJOICE. let him rejoice....
_But if a man live many years_ Better, FOR _if a man_… The relation is one of connexion rather than contrast. In the calm, enjoyable because beneficent, life which the thinker now contemplates as with...
F. EXHORTATIONS TO WORK IN HARMONY WITH Wisdom 11:112:8 1. Trust God and be cheerful in all of your activities. Ecclesiastes 11:1-8 TEXT 11:1-8 1 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for...
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. BUT IF A MAN LIVE MANY YEARS, (AND) REJOICE IN T...
LIFE AFTER ALL IS WORTH LIVING 1-3. Fulfil the duty of beneficence, knowing that results are in the hands of God....
RV 'Yea, if a man live many years, let him,' etc. The remembrance that life is brief is to be itself a motive for enjoyment while it is possible....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 11 THE KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN BEINGS HAS LIMITS – ECCLESIASTES 11:1-6 V1 Throw your bre...
DAYS OF DARKNESS. — Psalms 88:12; Psalms 143:3; Job 10:21. (Comp. also Psalms 56:13;...
כִּ֣י אִם ־שָׁנִ֥ים הַרְבֵּ֛ה יִחְיֶ֥ה הָ אָד
FOURTH SECTION The Quest Achieved. The Chief Good Is To Be Found, Not In Wisdom, Nor In Pleasure, Nor In Devotion To Affairs And Its Rewards; But In A Wise Use And A Wise Enjoyment Of The Present Li...
BUT IN A WISE USE AND A WISE ENJOYMENT OF THE PRESENT LIFE, Ecclesiastes 11:1 What that Good is, and where it may be found, the Preacher now proceeds to show. But, as his manner is, he does not say i...
LIVE NOT FOR TODAY ALONE Ecclesiastes 11:1-10 The casting of bread upon the waters is an allusion to the oriental custom of casting rice-grains on the fields, when they lie submerged beneath the annu...
The method of worldly wisdom is not that of discretion only; it is, moreover, that of diligence, and this passage urges such diligence. Again, we have taken more than one text out of this passage to p...
But if a man shall live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of (g) darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity. (g) That is, of affliction and troub...
_And the. Hebrew, "for they are many. What comes to pass is vanity." (Montanus) --- Nothing can more effectually repress the love of this world, Ecclesiasticus vii. 40. After Solomon has presented the...
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: (8) But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shal...
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...
BUT IF A MAN LIVE MANY YEARS,.... Enjoying light and life, and beholding the sun with much delight and pleasure. The days of men on earth, or under the sun, are but few at most; but some live many day...
But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity. Ver. 8. _But if a man live many years and rejo...
_Truly, the light is sweet_ It cannot be denied, that this present life is in itself a great blessing, and desirable; but it is not perpetual nor satisfactory: for, _if a man live many years_ Which is...
REJOICING WITH TREMBLING...
but if a man live many years and rejoice in them all, in the manner set forth in Holy Writ, Philippians 4:4, YET LET HIM REMEMBER THE DAYS OF DARKNESS, the long night of death; FOR THEY SHALL BE MANY....
"INDEED, IF. MAN SHOULD LIVE MANY YEARS, LET HIM REJOICE IN THEM ALL, AND LET HIM REMEMBER THE DAYS OF DARKNESS, FOR THEY SHALL BE MANY. EVERYTHING THAT IS TO COME WILL BE FUTILITY."IF. MAN SHOULD LIV...
7-10 Life is sweet to bad men, because they have their portion in this life; it is sweet to good men, because it is the time of preparation for a better; it is sweet to all. Here is a caution to thin...
LIVE MANY YEARS; which is a privilege granted but to few persons comparatively. AND REJOICE IN THEM ALL; and suppose he enjoy all the comforts, and escape all the embitterments, of human life, all his...
Ecclesiastes 11:8 man H120 lives H2421 (H8799) many H7235 (H8687) years H8141 rejoices H8055 (H8799) rememb
CHAPTER ECCLESIASTES 11:1 ADVICE FROM THE WISE MAN TO THE WISE. Central to these verses is the recognition of our ignorance. We do not know what will happen when we do things, we do not know what God...
CHAPTER S ECCLESIASTES 11:9 TO ECCLESIASTES 12:14 THE VENTURING OF THE YOUNG, THE TRIALS OF THE OLD AND MAN'S FINAL DESTINY. As we come to the end of the writer's musings we are rewarded with the fina...
Ecclesiastes 11:7 To most men there is something very hopeless about these words, a hopelessness with which too many of us are familiar. The tone is like that of some clever, old, hardened, unloving m...
Ecclesiastes 11:7 I. Notice the reality of the contrasts presented in life. Full as life is of pathetic meanings, we are often strangely insensible to them. We may not regard them with indifference, b...
Ecclesiastes 8:16-12 I. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his last course. (1) His first conclusion is that wisdom, which of all temp...
Ecclesiastes 11:1. _Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days._ Hoard not thy bread; for if thou dost, it will mildew, it will be of no use to thee. Cast it on the waters...
Ecclesiastes 11:6. _In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good._...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to works of charity and right living. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: Since we have death and judgment to prepare for, we should do good to others and abound in liberalit...
Ecclesiastes 11:1. _Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days._ The root לחם _lechem,_ designates bread, corn, and all kinds of meat which sustain life. It refers also to...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 11:7 LIGHT... DARKNESS refers to the contrast between life and death. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 11:7. TRULY THE LIGHT IS SWEET.] Light as the symbol of life. (Psalms 36:9, Job 3:20.) Ecclesiaste
EXPOSITION Approaching the end of his treatise, Koheleth, in view of apparent anomalies in God's moral government, and the difficulties that meet man in his social and political relations, proceeds t...
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you don't know what evil shall be upon the eaRuth (Ecclesiastes 11:1-2). You do...
Deuteronomy 32:29; Ecclesiastes 12:1; Ecclesiastes 3:12; Ecclesiastes 3:13;...
Rejoice — Enjoy all the comforts, and escape all the embitterments of human life, all his days. Darkness — Of death, or of the state of the dead. Many — Far more than the days of this short life. All...