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Verse 23. _HIS DAYS_ ARE _SORROWS_] What a picture of human life where
the heart is not filled with the peace and love of God! All his _days_
are _sorrows_; all his _labours griefs_; all his _nights_...
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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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TRAVAIL. toil that brings about fatigue. The same word as in
Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Ecclesiastes 3:10; Ecclesiastes
4:8; Ecclesiastes 5:14. Not the same word as in Ecclesiastes 4:4;
Ecc...
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_yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night_ The verse speaks out the
experience of the men who labour for that which does not profit. There
is no real pleasure, even at the time. The "cares of this...
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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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AND HIS TRAVAIL, GRIEF— _And grief his employment._ The second
observation (the subject of which is _riches,_ and which begins at the
18th verse), and the conclusion which flows from it, are so blende...
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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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For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart
taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
ALL HIS DAYS ARE SORROWS AND HIS TRAVAIL GRIEF. Same sentiment as ,
interroga...
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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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The fact that the wise man must surrender his acquisitions exhibits
the inutility of the painful toil by which he has gained them....
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כִּ֧י כָל ־יָמָ֣יו מַכְאֹבִ֗ים וָ
כַ֨עַס֙ עִנְיָנֹ֔ו גַּם ־בַּ †
לַּ֖יְלָה לֹא ־שָׁכַ֣ב לִבֹּ֑ו...
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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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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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FOR ALL HIS DAYS [ARE] SORROWS, AND HIS TRAVAIL GRIEF,.... All his
days are full of sorrows, of a variety of them; and all his affairs
and transactions of life are attended with grief and trouble; not...
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_For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart
taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity._
Ver. 23. _For all his days are sorrows, &c._] All the days of the
afflicted...
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_For what hath man_ “To what purpose,” a man may well say, “is
all this toil of my body, and these solicitous thoughts, and this
anguish of my mind? For all that a man can enjoy himself of the
anxious...
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THE VANITY OF LABOR IN ITSELF...
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"BECAUSE ALL HIS DAYS HIS TASK IS PAINFUL AND GRIEVOUS; EVEN AT NIGHT
HIS MIND DOES NOT REST. THIS TOO IS VANITY."
This is what many "driven" people have found at the end of the road.
"The compulsive...
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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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FOR ALL HIS DAYS ARE SORROWS; or, _though all his days were sorrows_,
i.e. full of sorrows. For this seems added to aggravate the evil
mentioned in the foregoing verse. Though he took great and unwear...
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Ecclesiastes 2:23 days H3117 sorrowful H4341 work H6045 burdensome
H3708 night H3915 heart H3820 rest H7901 (H8804) vanity H1892
all - Genesis 47:9; Job 5:7, Job 14:1; Psalms 90:7-10,...
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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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_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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Acts 14:22; Daniel 6:18; Ecclesiastes 5:12; Esther 6:1; Genesis 47:9;
Job 14:1; Job 5:7; Job 7:13; Job 7:14; Psalms 127:2;...
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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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Sorrows — Full of sorrows. Tho' he took great and unwearied pains
all his days, yet the toils of his body were accompanied with vexation
of mind. His heart — Because his sleep was broken with perplexi...