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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 7:14

Consider] Ask yourself what you may learn from it. Over against] RV 'side by side with.' Both run through the course of human life. To the end, etc.] So that we cannot forecast the part which the one and the other will play in the future.

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See also Ecclesiastes 7:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 14. _IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE JOYFUL_] When ye receive these temporal gifts from God, enjoy them, and be thankful to the Giver: but remember, this sunshine will not _always_ last. God has bal...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Good and prosperous days are in God’s design special times of comfort and rejoicing: the days of affliction and trouble, are in God’s design the proper seasons of recollection and serious consideratio...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12 1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_ 2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15) 3. The strength...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS AND REFLECTIONS. After asking, What is good for man in life? (Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisab...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FIND. discover....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _In the day of prosperity be joyful_ Literally, IN THE DAY OF GOOD, BE IN GOOD, _i.e._use it as it should be used. True wisdom, the teacher urges, is found in a man's enjoying whatever good actually c...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE JOYFUL— _In the day of prosperity enjoy it; but in the day of adversity, consider also that God hath made it in opposition to the other, to the end that man should not find...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    j. Trusting God for tomorrow is better than knowing about tomorrow. Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 TEXT 7:13-14 13 Consider the work of God, for who is able to straighten what He has bent? 14 In the day of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. IN THE DAY OF PROSPER...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    7:14 good, (c-7) Or 'be in prosperity.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many special sent...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Ecclus. 14:14, 33. The first clause may be more closely rendered, “In the good day be of good cheer.” As a consolation in time of adversity the thought Job 2:10 is offered. The last clause connects it...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בְּ יֹ֤ום טֹובָה֙ הֱיֵ֣ה בְ טֹ֔וב וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

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

    The preacher now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of maxi...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity (i) consider: God also hath appointed the one as well as the other, to the end that man should find (k) nothing after him. (i) Consider...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Despised. God never neglects first. (Council of Trent, Session vi. 11.) --- He detests sin, and at last abandons the obstinate, though he never fails to offer sufficient graces. A person who is of an...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. (12) For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth lif...

  • 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

    IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE JOYFUL,.... Or, "in a good day" q. When things go well in the commonwealth, in a man's family, and with himself, health, peace, and plenty, are enjoyed, a man's circumstanc...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. Ver. 14. _In the day of...

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

    _In the day of prosperity be joyful_ Enjoy God's favours with thankfulness. _In the day of adversity consider_ Namely, God's work, that it is his hand, and therefore submit to it: consider also why he...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    In the day of prosperity be joyful, enjoying God's blessings with due thankfulness, BUT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY CONSIDER, regard most carefully, let your thoughts run along these lines; GOD ALSO HATH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD AND THE SPIRIT OF CALM RESIGNATION...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SET: _ Heb._ made...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE HAPPY, BUT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY CONSIDER----GOD HAS MADE THE ONE AS WELL AS THE OTHER SO THAT MAN MAY NOT DISCOVER ANYTHING THAT WILL BE AFTER HIM."BE HAPPY….CONSIDER...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-22 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yea better. It shelters from the storms and scorching heat of trouble. Wealth will not lengthen out the natural life; but true wisdom will give spiritual li...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BE JOYFUL; enjoy God's favours with cheerfulness and thankfulness. CONSIDER, to wit, God's work, which is easily understood out of the foregoing verse. Consider that it is God's hand, and therefore su...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ecclesiastes 7:14 day H3117 prosperity H2896 joyful H2896 day H3117 adversity H7451 consider H7200 (H8798) God...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    BUT WISDOM INCLUDES A RECOGNITION THAT WE CANNOT INTERFERE WITH GOD'S DOINGS. THUS WE MUST ACCEPT FROM GOD WHAT HE IS PLEASED TO GIVE (ECCLESIASTES 7:13). Ecclesiastes 7:13 ‘Consider the work of God...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE IMPORTANCE OF PRACTICAL WISDOM (ECCLESIASTES 7:11). Wisdom As A Defence (Ecclesiastes 7:11). Having wisdom is a good foundation for life, for it provides a form of defence in times of trouble, a...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 7 IT IS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF DEATH, TO LISTEN TO REBUKE, TO BEHAVE WISELY, EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THE WORLD IS FULL OF WICKEDNESS. The emphasis of the book from now on includes the tho...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Ecclesiastes 7:14 The wise Preacher is speaking here of the right use of the changeful phenomena and conditions of man's life on earth. God sets prosperity over against adversity, and He does this tha...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Ecclesiastes 7 and ECCLESIASTES 8:1 I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities He has given us and the opp...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the vanity and vexation of the world. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the v...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ecclesiastes 7:1. _A good name is better than precious ointment._ Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48. Wisdom and virtue outlive t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight which He hath made crooked?_ THE POWER OF GOD, AND THE DUTY OF MAN I. What we are to understand by “the work of God.” This is an expression o...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:11. WISDOM IS GOOD WITH AN INHERITANCE] Wisdom, though good in itself, yet when joined with ample means imparts a power of doing good to others. ECCLESIASTES 7:12. WIS...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 7:1 Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED EXPERIENCES IN THE

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again, it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 17:17; 1 Kings 17:18; 1 Kings 8:47; 2 Chronicles 33:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Be joyful — Enjoy God's favours with thankfulness. Consider — Consider that it is God's hand, and therefore submit to it: consider also why God sends it, for what sins, and with what design. God also...

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