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Verse 14. _AND HE BEGETTETH A SON, AND_ THERE IS _NOTHING IN HIS_
_HAND._] He has been stripped of his property by unfortunate trade or
by plunderers; and he has nothing to leave to his children....
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EVIL TRAVAIL - Adverse accident, or unsuccessful employment (compare
Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 4:8)....
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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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TRAVAIL. fatigue from toil. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:23, and
Ecclesiastes 4:4....
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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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_There is_ NOTHING IN HIS HAND] Through a reverse of fortune the
wealth, which should have descended to the son, has disappeared. The
case is thus the converse misfortune to that of Ecclesiastes 4:8....
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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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EVIL TRAVAIL. — Unsuccessful business.
NOTHING IN HIS HAND. — The same words occur in a literal sense in
Judges 14:6....
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_[Ecclesiastes 5:13]_ וְ אָבַ֛ד הָ עֹ֥שֶׁר הַ...
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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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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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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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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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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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But those riches perish by evil labour: and he begetteth a son, and
[there is] nothing in his (l) hand.
(l) He does not enjoy his father's riches....
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_Labour. All must die in this manner. But it is most afflicting that
he was formerly rich, and must leave his son indigent. (Calmet)_...
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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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BUT THOSE RICHES PERISH BY EVIL TRAVAIL,.... Or, "by an evil business
or affair" n. That is, such riches as are not well got, or are not
used as they should be, these waste away and come to nothing; e...
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But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and
[there is] nothing in his hand.
Ver. 14. _But those riches perish by evil travail,_] _i.e., _ By evil
trading, trafficking, or oth...
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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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ABSTAINING FROM VICES AND FOSTERING VIRTUES...
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But those riches perish by evil travail, they are lost by the various
misfortunes attending wealth; AND HE BEGETTETH A SON, AND THERE IS
NOTHING IN HIS HAND, he is an heir of poverty....
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"WHEN THOSE RICHES WERE LOST THROUGH. BAD INVESTMENT AND HE HAD
FATHERED. SON, THEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO SUPPORT HIM."
"Here, then, is. man who loses all his money at. single blow, leaving
his family...
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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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BUT, or _for_, or _or_, or _moreover_; for this particle is so
rendered by divers others, both here and in other places of Scripture.
THOSE RICHES PERISH: if they be kept, it is to the owner's hurt; a...
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Ecclesiastes 5:14 riches H6239 perish H6 (H8804) misfortune H7451
begets H6045 H3205 (H8689) son H1121 nothin
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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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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:8 Life “Under the Sun.” The
Preacher observes the hardships of life in a fallen world.
⇐...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:13 RICHES WERE KEPT... TO HIS
HURT. A man endured hardship and sacrificed in order to acquire wealth
but was never able to enjoy it, because it was LOST IN A BAD VE...
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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 Kings 14:26; 1 Samuel 2:36; 1 Samuel 2:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Hagg
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Perish — By some wicked practices, either his own, or of other men.
Nothing — In the son's possession after his father's death....