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Verse 15. THAT WHICH IS _CROOKED CANNOT BE MADE STRAIGHT_] There are
many apparent irregularities and anomalies in nature for which we
cannot account; and there are many _defects_ that cannot be
_sup...
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He saw clearly both the disorder and incompleteness of human actions
(compare the marginal reference), and also man’s impotence to
rectify them....
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
PART I. Chapter S 1-6
1. The Prologue and the Search Begun
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. The introduction and prologue (Ecclesiastes 1:1)_
2. The seeker; his method and the results (Ecc...
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ECCLESIASTES 1:12 TO ECCLESIASTES 2:26. QOHELETH'S INVESTIGATIONS.
Assuming the character of Solomon the writer tells of his search for
happiness under many forms. The pursuit of wisdom (Ecclesiastes...
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_That which is crooked_ The words are apparently a proverbial saying
quoted as already current. The complaint is that the search after
wisdom brings the seeker face to face with anomalies and defects,...
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_SOLOMON'S SITUATION AND HIS STUDIES -- ECCLESIASTES 1:12-18:_ Solomon
showed that things that would normally be considered as what would
make a person happy do not. Surely being king would make a man...
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DISCOURSE: 828
THE CREATURE IS VANITY AND VEXATION
Ecclesiastes 1:14. _I have seen all the works which are done under the
sun; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is
crooked...
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AND THAT WHICH IS WANTING CANNOT BE NUMBERED— _Nor can men's wants
be numbered._ For the first clause of this verse, see chap.
Ecclesiastes 7:13. From the 12th to this verse, we have the second
proof...
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b. Wisdom is used exploring all that is done under heaven.
Ecclesiastes 1:13-18
TEXT 1:13-18
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And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that
has been done under heaven. It is...
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That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is
wanting cannot be numbered.
(THAT WHICH IS) CROOKED CANNOT BE MADE STRAIGHT - `be brought into
position' (Hengstengberg). The imperf...
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CROOKED] for the phrase here cp. Isaiah 40:4. The world is disordered,
and there is no cure discoverable.
NUMBERED] The required numbers are lacking, which were needed to make
up the sum of human act...
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ALL IS VANITY
1-11. The writer describes himself. He declares that all things are
transitory and without result, whether they be the works or the life
of man, or the natural forces of heat, air, and...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
ABOUT THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
THE AUTHOR
The word ‘Ecclesiastes’ tells us about the author...
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MADE STRAIGHT. — The verb occurs only in this book (Ecclesiastes
7:13; Ecclesiastes 12:9, “set in order”) and in Rabbinical Hebrew.
So likewise “that which is wanting” is peculiar to this passage,
and...
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מְעֻוָּ֖ת לֹא ־יוּכַ֣ל לִ תְקֹ֑ן וְ
חֶסְרֹ֖ון
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FIRST SECTION
The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wisdom And In Pleasure
Ecclesiastes 1:12; Ecclesiastes 2:1
OPPRESSED by his profound sense of the vanity of the life which man
lives amid the play of per...
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THE TESTIMONY OF AN UNSATISFIED SOUL
Ecclesiastes 1:1-18
_All is vanity_! This cry finds an echo in human hearts of every age
and clime. Clod meant man to be happy. “These things,” said our
Lord, “I...
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The first verse of this chapter introduces us to the author of the
Book. Taken in conjunction with verse Ecclesiastes 1:12, it leaves no
room for doubt that he is Solomon. In stating his theme he empl...
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_Perverse. Habitual and obstinate sinners. (Calmet) --- Fools, who
follow the broad road. (Haydock) --- Hebrew and Septuagint, "the
defect cannot be numbered." We know not to what a height the soul of...
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I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. (13) And I gave my
heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are
done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the so...
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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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[THAT WHICH IS] CROOKED CANNOT BE MADE STRAIGHT,.... By all the art
and cunning, wisdom and knowledge of man, that he can attain unto;
whatever he, in the vanity of his mind, may find fault with in th...
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Ecclesiastes 1:15 [That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and
that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Ver. 15. _That which is crooked cannot be made straight._] Most men
are so wedded and...
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_I have seen all the works_, &c. Diligently observed, and, in a great
measure, understood them; _and behold, all is vanity and vexation of
spirit_ Not only unsatisfying, but also an affliction or brea...
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That which is crooked cannot be made straight, human beings cannot
alter what has been determined by God, even as they cannot, by their
own reason and strength, change their sinful hearts to such as a...
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THE UNRELIABILITY OF EARTHLY WISDOM...
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THAT WHICH IS WANTING:
_ Heb._ defect...
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"WHAT IS CROOKED CANNOT BE STRAIGHTENED, AND WHAT IS LACKING CANNOT BE
COUNTED."WHAT IS CROOKED CANNOT BE STRAIGHTENED" -(Ecclesiastes 7:13).
We already know that man isn't born crooked, so Solomon is...
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12-18 Solomon tried all things, and found them vanity. He found his
searches after knowledge weariness, not only to the flesh, but to the
mind. The more he saw of the works done under the sun, the mo...
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THAT WHICH IS CROOKED CANNOT BE MADE STRAIGHT; all our knowledge
serves only to discover our diseases and miseries, but is oft itself
utterly insufficient to heal or remove them; it cannot rectify tho...
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Ecclesiastes 1:15 crooked H5791 (H8794) cannot H3201 (H8799) straight
H8626 (H8800) lacking H2642 cannot H3201
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THE PREACHER HAS MADE HIS ENQUIRIES AND COMES UP WITH NOTHING
(ECCLESIASTES 1:12 - ECCLESIASTES 2:26).
The Preacher now brings out that he has made further enquiries and has
come up with nothing. He f...
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THE INTELLECTUAL SEARCH (ECCLESIASTES 1:12).
Ecclesiastes 1:12
‘I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem, and I applied my
heart to seek and to search out by wisdom about all that is done und...
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Ecclesiastes 1:12
I. Solomon's first resource was philosophy. He studied man's position
in this world. His appetite for knowledge was omnivorous; and whilst
hungering for the harvest, he was thankful...
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CONTENTS: The doctrine of the vanity of the creature, and the
impossibility of finding satisfaction without God.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: All things, considered as abstract from God, an...
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Ecclesiastes 1:2. _Vanity of vanities._ This is the Hebrew form of the
superlative degree of comparison; as, the heaven of heavens, the song
of songs, &c. He adds, “vexation of spirit,” because his
re...
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_That which is crooked cannot be made straight._
MAKING THE CROOKED STRAIGHT
(with Isaiah 40:4):--Both these men gaze upon the affairs of human
kind, and are afflicted with the sense of crookedness....
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STRAIGHTENING IT OUT
That which is crooked cannot be made straight. Ecclesiastes 1:15.
The crooked shall be made straight. Isaiah 40:4.
Those two texts look like a contradiction, don't they? The se...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 1:4 First Catalog of
“Vanities.” The Preacher gives specific examples to prove his
belief that all is “vanity.”...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 1:15 CROOKED here means
“unknowable.” There will always be aspects of life in a fallen
world that remain mysterious....
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 1:1
THE TITLE.
THE WORDS OF THE PREACHER, THE SON OF DAVID, KING IN JERUSALEM;
Septuagint, "King of Israel in Jerusalem" (comp.Ecclesiastes 1:12).
The word rendered "Preacher...
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Book of Ecclesiastes begins,
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem
(Ecclesiastes 1:1).
So that identifies the author as Solomon. The Hebrew word that is
translated preacher i...
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Daniel 4:35; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Ecclesiastes 7:12; Ecclesiastes 7:13;...
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THE MAN UNDER THE SUN
Ecclesiastes 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
In order to introduce this study we can think of no better way than to
go to our booklet on Ecclesiastes for a quotation.
1. ECCLESIASTES S...
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Crooked — All our knowledge serves only to discover our miseries,
but is utterly insufficient to remove them; it cannot rectify those
disorders which are either in our own hearts and lives, or in the...