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Ecclesiastes 3:10
I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it, the misery which is the lot of all human beings.
I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it, the misery which is the lot of all human beings.
Verse Ecclesiastes 3:10. _I HAVE SEEN THE TRAVAIL_] Man is a sinner; and, because he is such, he suffers....
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...
SEEN THE TRAVAIL. considered the business. TRAVAIL. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:23....
_I have seen the travail, which God hath given_ Better perhaps, I HAVE SEEN THE LABOUR, or THE BUSINESS. As before, in the preceding verse, the thinker, once back in the old groove of thought, repeats...
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 have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. I HAVE SEEN THE TRAVAIL ... GIVEN TO THE SONS OF MEN. Needless anxieties and toils, which men might avoid, i...
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...
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...
רָאִ֣יתִי אֶת ־הָֽ עִנְיָ֗ן אֲשֶׁ֨ר נָתַ֧ן אֱ
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...
I have seen the labour, which God hath given to the sons of men (b) to be exercised in it. (b) Read (Ecclesiastes 1:13)....
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 HAVE SEEN THE TRAVAIL WHICH GOD HATH GIVEN TO THE SONS OF MEN,.... The pains and trouble they are at to get a little wisdom and knowledge, Ecclesiastes 1:13; and so to obtain riches and honour, peac...
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. Ver. 10. _I have seen the travail that God, &c._] Not fortune, but Providence ordereth all cross occurrences; ...
_I have seen the travail_, &c. I have diligently observed men's various employments, and the different successes of them. _Which God hath given_, &c. Which God hath imposed upon men as their duty; to...
"I HAVE SEEN THE TASK WHICH GOD HAS GIVEN THE SONS OF MEN WITH WHICH TO OCCUPY THEMSELVES." To support the negative conclusion of verse 9, Solomon notes his observations ("I have seen"). "Solomon's p...
1-10 To expect unchanging happiness in a changing world, must end in disappointment. To bring ourselves to our state in life, is our duty and wisdom in this world. God's whole plan for the government...
I HAVE SEEN, I have diligently observed and considered upon this occasion, THE TRAVAIL, or _the occupation_ or _business_, men's various employments, and the differing successes of them, WHICH GOD HAT...
Ecclesiastes 3:10 seen H7200 (H8804) God-given H430 H5414 (H8804) task H6045 sons H1121 men H120 occupied...
MUSINGS ON MAN'S WORK (ECCLESIASTES 3:9). Ecclesiastes 3:9 ‘What profit has the workman in that in which he labours? We return here to the question of purposelessness. The workman who labours gains...
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,...
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...
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...
_What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?_ AUTUMN MUSINGS Autumn is a time which has its meaning, as well as its appropriate duties. Its deep suggestiveness is written upon the...
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....
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 3:11. IN HIS TIME.] This is the emphatic part of the sentence. The fitting time is one of the chief elements in the ways of Providence, which raises in us the thought of...
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 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8; Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 1:14;...
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...
Seen — I have diligently observed mens various employments, and the different successes of them. Hath given — Which God hath imposed upon men as their duty; to which therefore men ought quickly to sub...