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Verse 20. _I WENT ABOUT TO CAUSE MY HEART TO DESPAIR_] What makes all
worse, there is no remedy. It is impossible in the present state of
things to prevent these evils....
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Solomon having found that wisdom and folly agree in being subject to
vanity, now contrasts one with the other Ecclesiastes 2:13. Both are
brought under vanity by events Ecclesiastes 2:14 which come on...
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CHAPTER 2THE RESULTS OF THE SEARCH AND DIFFERENT VANITIES
_ 1. His personal experience (Ecclesiastes 2:1)_
2. Various vanities and a conclusion (Ecclesiastes 2:12)
Ecclesiastes 2:1. Here we find fir...
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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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TOOK. toiled. Some codices, with two early printed editions, add
wherein. had acted wisely...
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_I went about to cause my heart to despair_ The verb for despair is
not a common one. Another form of it meets us in the emphatic cry,
"There is no hope" of Jeremiah 2:25; Jeremiah 18:12. What he had...
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_THE VANITY OF TOIL -- ECCLESIASTES 2:18-23:_ When Solomon stopped to
consider his life he hated what he had done. He had spent his life
collecting stuff to leave to someone else. He realized that the...
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THEREFORE I WENT ABOUT TO CAUSE MY HEART TO DESPAIR, &C.— _And I
considered every way, so that my heart despaired of ever gaining any
sort of advantage from all the trouble that I took under the sun;_...
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b. The legacy of one's labor is often lost to fools when one dies.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-23
TEXT 2:18-23
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Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under
the sun, for I must leav...
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Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour
which I took under the sun.
I WENT ABOUT (I TURNED MYSELF) TO CAUSE MY HEART TO DESPAIR OF ALL
THE LABOUR - I gave up as despe...
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EPICUREANISM AND WISDOM ALIKE PROFITLESS
1-3. The writer makes enjoyment his quest, while aware that it is
folly, and avoiding excess in a philosophic spirit....
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 2
THE TEST TO DISCOVER WHAT MAKES A PERSON HAPPY – ECCLESIASTES 2:1-11
V1 I spoke t...
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WENT ABOUT. — Ecclesiastes 7:25; Ecclesiastes 9:14; Ecclesiastes
12:5....
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וְ סַבֹּ֥ותִֽי אֲנִ֖י לְ יַאֵ֣שׁ אֶת
־לִבִּ֑י עַ֚ל כָּל ־הֶ֣ עָמָ֔ל שֶׁ
עָמַ֖לְתִּי תַּ֥חַת...
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Turning from the pursuit of knowledge to the pathway of pleasure, the
king had given himself up to mirth, seeking the false stimulus of
wine. In this also he had been disappointed, finding that mirth...
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Therefore I went about to cause my heart (n) to despair of all the
labour which I took under the sun.
(n) That I might seek the true happiness which is in God....
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_Off, in a sort of despair; suggested by worldly wisdom. Religion
alone can impart steady principles. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "I went
about, to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I to...
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For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever;
seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten.
And how dieth the wise man? as the fool. (17) Therefore I ha...
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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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THEREFORE I WENT ABOUT TO CAUSE MY HEART TO DESPAIR,.... Of ever
finding happiness in anything here below. He "turned about" y, as the
word signifies dropped his severe studies of wisdom, and his eage...
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Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour
which I took under the sun.
Ver. 20. _Therefore I went about to cause my heart, &c., _] _i.e., _
I set myself to take off the edg...
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_I went to cause my heart to despair_ I gave myself up to despair of
ever reaping that satisfaction which I promised to myself. _For there
is a man whose labour_, &c. Who uses great industry, and prud...
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Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor
which I took under the sun, he was inclined to regard his life as a
failure, if viewed from this standpoint alone....
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"THEREFORE. COMPLETELY DESPAIRED OF ALL THE FRUIT OF MY LABOR FOR
WHICH. HAD LABORED UNDER THE SUN."COMPLETELY DESPAIRED" -You can see
why people without God commit suicide.. get depressed by just rea...
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18-26 Our hearts are very loth to quit their expectations of great
things from the creature; but Solomon came to this at length. The
world is a vale of tears, even to those that have much of it. See...
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I gave myself up to despondency, and despair of ever reaping that
satisfaction which I promised to myself....
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Ecclesiastes 2:20 turned H5437 (H8804) heart H3820 despaired H2976
(H8763) labor H5999 toiled H5998 (H8804) sun H8121
Genesis 43:14; Job 17:11-15; Psalms 39:6-7; 1 Corinthians 15:19;...
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WHAT USE OUR EFFORTS WHEN WE MUST LEAVE ALL BEHIND TO THOSE WHO WILL
MISUSE IT? (ECCLESIASTES 2:18).
Ecclesiastes 2:18
‘And I hated all my effort with which I exerted myself under the
sun, seeing th...
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Ecclesiastes 1:12-2
I. As was natural in so wise a man, the Preacher turns first to
wisdom. It is the wisdom that is born of wide and varied experience,
not of abstract study. He acquaints himself wit...
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CONTENTS: Solomon shows that there is no true happiness and
satisfaction to be had in mirth, pleasure and the delights of sense.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: True and lasting happiness and...
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Ecclesiastes 2:1. _Enjoy pleasure._ The first doctrine of Epicurus,
whose system is here rebutted. Acts 17:18.
Ecclesiastes 2:2. _I said of laughter,_ of all forced and frantic joy,
_it is mad._ Chal...
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_Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth._
THE THREEFOLD VIEW OF HUMAN LIFE
Three views of human life are given in this remarkable chapter.
I. The theatrical view of life (Ecclesiastes 2:1). The wr...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 2:18 I HATED ALL MY TOIL. While at
times the Preacher found pleasure in his work, his enjoyment is
severely lessened by the knowledge that he must eventually hand ove...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Ecclesiastes 2:17_
THE CONFESSIONS OF A PLEASURE-SEEKER
I. THAT HIS LIFE’S PROMISE HAS FAILED. The pleasure-seeker begins
life with high hopes. The intoxication o...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 2:1
Section 2. _Vanity of striving after pleasure and wealth._
ECCLESIASTES 2:1
Dissatisfied with the result of the pursuit of wisdom, Koheleth
embarks on a course of sensua...
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So I said in my heart, Go to now, I'm going to prove thee with
[pleasure,] with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: but, behold, this
was vanity (Ecclesiastes 2:1).
So we read in the New Testament the e...
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1 Corinthians 15:19; 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:4; 2
Corinthians 1:8; Genesis 43:14; Job 17:11; Psalms 39:6; Psalms 39:7...
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VANITY AND VEXATION UNDER THE SUN
Ecclesiastes 2:11
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We shall introduce our study with quotations from our booklet on
Ecclesiastes. Solomon had tried everything which his heart co...
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Despair — I gave myself up to despair of ever reaping that
satisfaction which I promised to myself....