George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Industries, or Hebrew, "righteous actions." If one be poor, he is in distress; if rich, he is exposed to envy; so that all is vanity. (Calmet)
Industries, or Hebrew, "righteous actions." If one be poor, he is in distress; if rich, he is exposed to envy; so that all is vanity. (Calmet)
Verse Ecclesiastes 4:4. _FOR THIS A MAN IS ENVIED_] It is not by injustice and wrong only that men suffer, but through _envy_ also. For if a man act uprightly and properly in the world, he soon becom...
EVERY RIGHT WORK - Rather, every success in work. FOR THIS ... - i. e., “This successful work makes the worker an object of envy.” Some understand the meaning to be, “this work is the effect of the r...
CHAPTER 4 OBSERVATIONS OF DIFFERENT WRONGS _ 1. Concerning oppressions (Ecclesiastes 4:1)_ 2. Concerning envy of fools and the rich (Ecclesiastes 4:4) 3. Concerning the miser (Ecclesiast
ECCLESIASTES 4. A GLOOMY SURVEY. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression (Ecclesiastes 4:1), rivalry (Ecclesiastes 4:4), isolation amounting to self-torture (Ecclesia...
TRAVAIL. toil, as connected with trouble, sorrow. Not the same word as in Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Ecclesiastes 2:26;...
_I considered all travail, and every right work_ The "right work," as in ch. Ecclesiastes 2:21, is that which is DEXTEROUS and successful, without any marked reference to its moral character. Men exul...
2. Keep your motive for work pure. Ecclesiastes 4:4-6 TEXT 4:4-6 4 And I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too i...
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. EVERY RIGHT WORK ... FOR THIS A MAN IS ENVIED - ra...
4:4 success (i-8) Or 'skilfulness,' as ch. 2.21....
VICISSITUDES OF LIFE. 'OH, THE PITY OF IT!' 1-3. The mass of human suffering and the absence of pity are such that better off are the dead and still more the unborn. It is not only through God's ord...
RIGHT] RV 'skilful,' RM 'successful.' FOR THIS.. NEIGHBOUR] RM 'it cometh of a man's rivalry with his neighbour.' Effort is stimulated by competition, but then what man has gained by toil is marred by...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 4 This chapter contains several subjects. 1. PEOPLE WHO SUFFER – ECCLESIASTES 4:1-...
RIGHT WORK. — Rather, _skilful._ (See Note on Ecclesiastes 2:21.)...
וְ רָאִ֨יתִֽי אֲנִ֜י אֶת ־כָּל ־עָמָ֗ל וְ
DEVOTION TO BUSINESS SPRINGS FROM JEALOUS COMPETITION: Ecclesiastes 4:4 (a) Let us glance once more at the several symptoms we have already heard him discuss, and consider whether or not they accord...
IT IS RENDERED HOPELESS BY THE BASE ORIGIN OF HUMAN INDUSTRIES. Ecclesiastes 4:4 This stinging sense of the miserable estate of his race has, however, diverted the Preacher from the conduct of the ma...
AND BY HUMAN INJUSTICE AND PERVERSITY. Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ecclesiastes 4:1 But not only are our endeavours to find the "good" of our labours thwarted by the gracious, inflexible laws of the just God...
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...
From this general survey the preacher returned to examine the condition of the beings whom he had described as being no better than the beasts. He looked out upon them, and saw them in suffering, and...
Again, I considered all labour, and every (d) right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit. (d) The more perfect that the work is, the more...
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. (4) Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is...
_A DISAPPOINTING WORLD_ ‘Vanity and vexation of spirit.’ Ecclesiastes 4:4 Among the examples in proof of the imperfection and inconstancy of earthly happiness which the Preacher communicates in the...
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...
AGAIN I CONSIDERED ALL TRAVAIL, AND EVERY RIGHT WORK,.... The pains that men take to do right works. Some apply themselves, with great diligence and industry, to the study of the liberal arts and scie...
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit. Ver. 4. _That for this a man is envied of his neig...
_Again I considered all travail_ Hebrew כל עמל, _all the labour, toil_, or _trouble_, which men undertake or undergo; _and every right work_ All the worthy designs of virtuous men; _that for this a ma...
Again, I considered all travail and every right work, the prosperity coveted by men, the source and motive of so much of the oppression found in the world, THAT FOR THIS, namely, for his apparent succ...
PERSONAL MISFORTUNES...
EVERY RIGHT WORK: _ Heb._ all the rightness of work FOR THIS A MAN IS ENVIED OF HIS NEIGHBOUR: _ Heb._ this is the envy of a man from his neighbour...
"AND. HAVE SEEN THAT EVERY LABOR AND EVERY SKILL WHICH IS DONE IS THE RESULT OF RIVALRY BETWEEN. MAN AND HIS NEIGHBOR. THIS TOO IS VANITY AND STRIVING AFTER WIND." "is done is the result of rivalry...
4-6 Solomon notices the sources of trouble peculiar to well-doers, and includes all who labour with diligence, and whose efforts are crowned with success. They often become great and prosperous, but...
EVERY RIGHT WORK; all the worthy designs and complete works of wise and virtuous men. IS ENVIED OF HIS NEIGHBOUR; instead of that honour and recompence which he deserves, he meets with nothing but env...
Ecclesiastes 4:4 saw H7200 (H8804) toil H5999 skillful H3788 work H4639 man H376 envied H7068 neighbor H7453 v
SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE (ECCLESIASTES 4:4). Having all to briefly considered the oppression that was in the world, which has left him feeling that it was better if they had never been born, he no...
CHAPTER 4 THE DREADFULNESS OF OPPRESSION. GUIDANCE ON LIVING. This chapter begins with considering the dreadfulness of oppression and then continues with thoughts on living, giving both good and bad...
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 th...
CONTENTS: Discontent and impatience because of the oppressions and iniquities of life. CHARACTERS: Solomon. CONCLUSION: The world is full of trouble. By reason of man's perversity, he is ever distur...
Ecclesiastes 4:2. _Wherefore I praised the dead more than the living,_ who are robbed, fleeced, and exposed to incessant afflictions, from oppression and war. Solomon alludes to extreme cases, such as...
_Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour._ AN OLD PORTRAIT OF MODERN MEN Here is a portrait, drawn by a man who lived thousands of years...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 4:4 Much of what is achieved by human ability stems FROM A MAN’S ENVY OF HIS NEIGHBOR. Here the Preacher focuses on the VANITY that comes to those who make such...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 4:5. EATETH HIS OWN FLESH.] Accomplishes his own ruin by indolence, exhausts his fortune, preys upon himself like one mad with hunger. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 4:1 Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of _man_'_s inability to be the architect of his own happiness_._ _There are many things which interrupt or des...
So I returned, and I considered all of the oppressions that are done under the sun: and the tears of those that are oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was...
1 John 3:12; Acts 7:9; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 2:21;...
Right work — All the worthy designs of virtuous men. Envied — Instead of honour, he meets with envy and obloquy....