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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There is] RV 'there was.' Even of.. them] RV 'even of all them over whom he was.' T he sketch is continued; there is an endless stream of those who crowd to pay court. They also] RV 'yet they,' etc. Oblivion will soon wipe out all.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ecclesiastes 4:16. THERE IS _NO END OF ALL THE PEOPLE_] This is supposed to refer to the multitudes of people who hail the advent and accession of a new sovereign; for, as _Suetonius_ remarks,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    These verses set forth the vanity of earthly prosperity even on a throne. Opinion as to their application is chiefly divided between considering them a parable or fiction like that of the childless ma...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _There is no end of all the people_ The words continue the picture of the crowds who follow the young king. _even of all that have been before them_ The last words are not of time but position. The pe...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I CONSIDERED ALL THE LIVING— _I saw all the living eager to walk under the sun, with the second son who should succeed him._—Ver. 16. _No end of all the people! of all that resorted to them! Yet they...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. Keep in mind that prestigious positions will soon be forgotten. Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 TEXT 4:13-16 13 A poor, yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receiv...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit. (THERE IS) NO END O...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:16 them; (c-14) Or 'before whom he (i.e. the king) stood.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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-...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֵֽין ־קֵ֣ץ לְ כָל ־הָ עָ֗ם לְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    YET THESE ARE CAPABLE OF A NOBLER MOTIVE AND MODE. Ecclesiastes 4:9 Now a jealous rivalry culminating in mere avarice, -that surely is not the wisest or noblest spirit of which those are capable who...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [There is] no (l) end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. (l) They ne...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _In him. Many are perfectly unacquainted with the king, who finds so many admirers about his person, and even of these the greatest part begin to be presently disgusted, and wish for another change._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. (16) There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS MY soul! hast thou learnt to form similar conclusions to the Preacher from the same causes; and in a right estimate of human life, made calculations what the close will be? Hast thou behel...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [THERE IS] NO END OF ALL THE PEOPLE, [EVEN] OF ALL THAT HAVE BEEN BEFORE THEM,.... Before the present generation, the living that walked under the sun; a vast number they were that lived before them,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    __ Ecclesiastes 4:16 _[There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of s...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _There is no end of the people_ The sense seems to be, either, 1st, The people who have this humour are without end, or innumerable: or, 2d, This humour of the common people hath no end, but passes fr...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them, the entire mass of subjects hail the usurper with joy and expect great things from him; THEY ALSO THAT COME AFTER SHALL NOT R...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    EVILS OF SOCIAL AND CIVIL LIFE...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "THERE IS NO END TO ALL THE PEOPLE, TO ALL WHO WERE BEFORE THEM, AND EVEN THE ONES WHO WILL COME LATER WILL NOT BE HAPPY WITH HIM, FOR THIS TOO IS VANITY AND STRIVING AFTER WIND." "the ones who will c...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-16 People are never long easy and satisfied; they are fond of changes. This is no new thing. Princes see themselves slighted by those they have studied to oblige; this is vanity and vexation of spi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THERE IS NO END OF ALL THE PEOPLE: the sense is either, 1. The people which have this humour are without end, or innumerable, as this phrase signifies, JOB 22:5 ISAIAH 2:7, ISAIAH 9:7. Or, 2. This hu...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ecclesiastes 4:16 end H7093 people H5971 over H6440 afterward H314 rejoice H8055 (H8799) vanity H1892 grasping...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished._ ON THE ADVANTAGES OF CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE TO THE LOWER ORDERS OF SOCIETY There is no topic on which th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 4:13 The Preacher recalls an example of the temporary results of wisdom. In contrast to AN OLD AND FOOLISH KING, there once was A POOR AND WISE YOUTH who managed to r...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 4:13. BETTER IS A POOR AND A WISE CHILD.] Not in the moral point of view, but happier—better off. ECCLESIASTES 4:14. FOR OUT OF PRISON HE COMETH TO REIGN.] Reference is...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 1:40; 1 Kings 1:5; 1 Kings 12:10; 2 Samuel 15:12; 2 S

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    No end — This humour of the common people hath no end, but passes from one generation to another. Before them — Before the present generation. And so here are three generations of people noted, the au...

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