George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ecclesiastes 3:12
Well; virtuously: or, perhaps, as literally, to enjoy himself, ver. 13. (Calmet) --- Thus thinks the man of pleasure, Isaias xxii. 31. (St. Jerome)
Well; virtuously: or, perhaps, as literally, to enjoy himself, ver. 13. (Calmet) --- Thus thinks the man of pleasure, Isaias xxii. 31. (St. Jerome)
Verse Ecclesiastes 3:12. _I KNOW THAT_ THERE IS _NO GOOD IN THEM, BUT, C._] Since God has so disposed the affairs of this world, that the great events of providence cannot be accelerated or retarded...
IN THEM - i. e., in the sons of men. TO DO GOOD - In a moral sense. Physical enjoyment is referred to in Ecclesiastes 3:13....
2. FURTHER RESULTS OF THE SEARCH CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The times of man under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3:1)_ 2. When then is the good? (Ecclesiastes 3:12) 3. Concerning judgment and the future ...
From one point of view this section may be entitled _In Praise of Opportunism,_ from another _Human Helplessness._ Every action in which man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure tha...
IN THEM: i.e. in God's works. IN. during....
_for a man to rejoice, and to do good_ There is no instance in O. T. language of the phrase "do good" being used, like the Greek εὖ πράττειν, in the sense of "prospering," or "enjoying one's self," an...
2. Working outside the framework of God's providence results in frustration and defeat. Ecclesiastes 3:9-22 TEXT 3:9-22 9 What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? 10 I have...
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. I KNOW THAT (THERE IS) NO GOOD IN THEM. Man can get no good in God's works except by rejoicing in his sha...
THE PRACTICAL IDEAL. ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNIVERSAL SCHEME 1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture, pleasure, are al...
NO GOOD.. _a man_] RV 'nothing better for them than.'...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 3 A POEM ABOUT TIME – ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8...
I KNOW. — Literally, _I knew: i.e.,_ I came to know. The writer is relating the conclusions at which he successively arrived. TO DO GOOD. — This phrase is always used elsewhere in a moral sense: “to...
יָדַ֕עְתִּי כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין טֹ֖וב בָּ֑ם כִּ֣י אִם
THE QUEST OBSTRUCTED BY DIVINE ORDINANCES. Ecclesiastes 3:1 The time of birth, for instance, and the time of death, are ordained by a Power over which men have no control; they begin to be, and they...
SECOND SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20 I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom utters her vo...
The vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of that...
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? (10) I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. (11) He hath made everything beautiful in hi...
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...
I KNOW THAT [THERE IS] NO GOOD IN THEM,.... In these things; as the Arabic version; in the creatures, as Jarchi; in all sublunary enjoyments; in everything the wise man had made a trial of before, as...
I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life. Ver. 12. _I know that there is no good in them,_] _i.e., _ No other good, but for a man to rejoice and...
_I know_ By clear reason, and my own long and certain experience; _that there is no good in them_ No other satisfaction or felicity that a man can enjoy in creatures or worldly things; _but for a man...
THE NATURE OF HUMAN HAPPINESS...
I know that there is no good in them, in the works of God given to men, BUT FOR A MAN TO REJOICE, in a cheerful use of the blessings of the Lord, AND TO DO GOOD IN HIS LIFE, to himself and to others i...
"I KNOW THAT THERE IS NOTHING BETTER FOR THEM THAN TO REJOICE AND TO DO GOOD IN ONE'S LIFETIME;" Since the events in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 aren't eternal, then we need to appreciate them. So often we are...
11-15 Every thing is as God made it; not as it appears to us. We have the world so much in our hearts, are so taken up with thoughts and cares of worldly things, that we have neither time nor spirit...
I KNOW, by clear reason, and my own long and certain experience, THAT THERE IS NO GOOD, no other satisfaction or felicity which a man can enjoy, in them, in creatures or worldly enjoyments. _To do goo...
Ecclesiastes 3:12 know H3045 (H8804) better H2896 rejoice H8055 (H8800) do H6213 (H8800) good H2896 lives
GOD HAS GIVEN MAN A CONCEPTION OF EVERLASTINGNESS. Here he provides something extra to what God has given men to do. While man has to work so hard, nevertheless God has made everything beautiful in it...
Ecclesiastes 3:12 Even in the days of his vanity, Solomon saw that there would be more happiness if there were less hankering. Are the cases not numberless where, for all purposes of enjoyment, labou...
Ecclesiastes 1:12-3 Koheleth now mentions the unusual advantages which he had possessed for enjoying life and making the best of it. His opportunities could not have been greater, he considers, had h...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him. "He hath made everything beautiful in its time,...
CONTENTS: The mutability of all human affairs and the unchangeableness and unsearchableness of the divine counsels. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: We live in a world of changes. The events of...
Ecclesiastes 3:1. _To every thing there is a season._ The seasons of the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9., divides the times into twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandm...
_I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life._ DOING GOOD AND REJOICING Solomon proposes two things to our practice, if we intend to live happily and co...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:9 Fear God, the Sovereign One. The vanity of life causes the Preacher to reflect on what is permanent and lasting: the sovereign God of the universe....
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:12 Rather than becoming resentful about what God has _not_ granted human beings, one should enjoy the gifts that God _has_ given....
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 3:12. FOR WHO KNOWETH THE SPIRIT OF MAN THAT GOETH UPWARD.] Man has no distinct and certain knowledge of his own future destiny, or of that of other forms of life. The su...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 3:1 Section 4. In confirmation of the truth that man's happiness depends upon the will of God, Koheleth proceeds to show how _Providence arranges even the minutest concerns;...
Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was mono...
1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:16; 1 Timothy 6:18; Acts 20:35;...
WHAT IS GOOD IN THIS LIFE Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to the second great question in the Book of Ecclesiastes. It is expressed in Chapter s 6 and 12: "Who kno...
Them — In creatures or worldly enjoyments. To do good — To employ them in acts of charity and liberality....