"When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?"
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Verse Ecclesiastes 5:11. _WHEN GOODS INCREASE_] An increase of
property always brings an increase of expense, by a multitude of
servants; and the owner really possesses no more, and probably
_enjoys_...
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THEY ... THAT EAT THEM - i. e., The laborers employed, and the
household servants....
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3. EXHORTATIONS ON DIFFERENT VANITIES
CHAPTER 5
_ 1. Concerning worship and vows (Ecclesiastes 5:1)_
2. Concerning extortions (Ecclesiastes 5:8)
3. The vanities of wealth (Ecclesiastes 5:10)
4. T...
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CONCERNING DESPOTISM AND WEALTH.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 f. The oppression and injustice that one sees (_in_
an Oriental satrapy) are not to be wondered at when we remember the
graded hierarchy of officials...
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GOOD. advantage.
OWNERS. Plural of emphasis.
THEIR. his....
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_When goods increase, they are increased that eat them_ The fact is
one which has met the gaze of the moralists of all countries. A large
household, numerous retainers, these are but so many elements...
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E. ADMONITIONS CONCERNING THE FUTILITY OF RICHES 5:106:12
1. Riches by themselves are vain. Ecclesiastes 5:10-20
a. They do not satisfy. Ecclesiastes 5:10-12
TEXT 5:10-12
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He who loves money wi...
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When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good
is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with
their eyes?
WHEN GOODS INCREASE ... - the rich man's dependen...
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DISHEARTENING OUTLOOK ON LIFE
1-8. Disorders in the religious, in the political world. In the
earlier part of this chapter the writer turns from secular to
religious matters. H e points out the irrev...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 5
BE AFRAID TO MAKE GOD ANGRY – ECCLESIASTES 5:1-7
V1 Be careful when you go to God’...
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_[Ecclesiastes 5:10]_ בִּ רְבֹות֙ הַ טֹּובָ֔ה
רַבּ֖וּ אֹוכְלֶ֑יהָ וּ מַה
־כִּשְׁרֹון֙ לִ בְעָלֶ֔יהָ כִּ֖י...
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PRACTICAL MAXIMS DEDUCED FROM THIS VIEW OF THE BUSINESS LIFE.
(b) A noble philosophy this, and pregnant with practical counsels of
great value. For if, as we close our study of this Section of the
Bo...
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The observation of the religious life brings no truer satisfaction. In
this brief passage contempt for religion is not expressed, but there
is absolutely no joy or satisfaction manifest. The life is w...
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_Sleep. Is not the health and content of the poor to be preferred?_...
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If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of
judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he
that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher...
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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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WHEN GOODS INCREASE, THEY ARE INCREASED THAT EAT THEM,.... When a
man's substance increases by trade, or otherwise, very often so it is
that his family increases, and he has more mouths to feed, and b...
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When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good
[is there] to the owners thereof, saving the beholding [of them] with
their eyes?
Ver. 11. _When goods increase, they are increase...
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_He that loveth silver shall not_, &c. The greatest treasures of
silver do not satisfy the covetous possessor of it, both because his
mind is insatiable, his desires being increased by and with his ga...
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ABSTAINING FROM VICES AND FOSTERING VIRTUES...
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"WHEN GOOD THINGS INCREASE, THOSE WHO CONSUME THEM INCREASE. SO WHAT
IS THE ADVANTAGE OF THEIR OWNERS EXCEPT TO LOOK ON?"THOSE WHO CONSUME
THEM INCREASE" -Solomon was well aware of the complex establi...
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9-17 The goodness of Providence is more equally distributed than
appears to a careless observer. The king needs the common things of
life, and the poor share them; they relish their morsel better tha...
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THEY ARE INCREASED THAT EAT THEM; they require and are more commonly
attended with a numerous company of servants, and friends, and
retinues to consume them; which is a great torment to a covetous man...
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Ecclesiastes 5:11 goods H2896 increase H7235 (H8800) increase H7231
(H8804) eat H398 (H8802) profit H3788 owners H1167 Except H518 see
H7207 (H8675) H7212 (H8801) eyes H5869
they - Genesis 12:16,...
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THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BURDENS AND PROBLEMS OF WEALTH (ECCLESIASTES 5:8).
Here we find a total contrast to the first seven verses. There the
thought was of attitude towards God. Now we move on to the atti...
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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 t...
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CONTENTS: Warnings against a vain religion. The vanity and vexation
attending the possession of wealth.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: We should address ourselves to the worship of God with a...
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Ecclesiastes 5:1. _Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God._
Avoid wandering thoughts, and be wholly absorbed in devotion. Do not
hear the words of prayer only, but desire the blessings soug...
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_Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God._
REVERENCE AND FIDELITY
This passage is a series of cautions against irreverence and
insincerity in worship, against discouragement because of pol...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:8 Life “Under the Sun.” The
Preacher observes the hardships of life in a fallen world.
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Ecclesiastes 5:10_
THE IMPOTENCE OF WEALTH
Wealth, though it confers great social influence and power, has yet
some elements of weakness, and fails when the sever...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 5:1
Section 6. Man's outward and secular life being unable to secure
happiness and satisfaction, can these be found in _popular religion?_
Religious exercises need the observ...
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Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to
hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they do not consider
the evil that they do (Ecclesiastes 5:1).
When you go into the...
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1 John 2:16; 1 Kings 4:22; 1 Kings 4:23; 1 Kings 5:13; Ecclesiastes
11:9; Ecclesiastes 6:9; Genesis 12:16; Genesis 13:2; Genesis 13:5;...