Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, on account of some grief or bereavement, and a time to dance, to leap for joy;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, on account of some grief or bereavement, and a time to dance, to leap for joy;
Verse Ecclesiastes 3:4. _A TIME TO WEEP, - LAUGH, - MOURN, - DANCE_] _________________ "When private _griefs_ affect The heart, _our tears with decent sorrow flow_; Nor less becoming, when the _pub...
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...
TO WEEP. Genesis 23:2. Gen 44:30. 2 Samuel 12:21.Joel 2:17; Jeremiah 21:9;...
_a time to weep_ The two couples are naturally grouped together, the first taking in the natural spontaneous expression of individual feeling, the second the more formal manifestation of the feelings...
B. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THAT WE WORK UNDER THE RULE OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 1. Man should adjust to live his life within the framework of God's providence. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 TEXT 3:1-8...
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A TIME TO MOURN - namely, for the dead (). DANCE - as David before the ark (; ; spiritually,...
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...
MOURN. — This is the ordinary word used for noisy funeral lamentations (Jeremiah 4:8; 1 Samuel 25:1)....
עֵ֤ת לִ בְכֹּות֙ וְ עֵ֣ת לִ שְׂחֹ֔וק
AND THE CONVICTION THAT IT IS OPPOSED TO THE WILL OF GOD AS EXPRESSED IN THE ORDINANCES OF HIS PROVIDENCE, Ecclesiastes 3:1 This is one help to a wise content with our lot; but he has many more at ou...
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...
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: (2) A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; (3) A time to ki...
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...
A TIME TO WEEP, AND A TIME TO LAUGH,.... There is a time for these things, as it goes ill or well with persons, as to their health, estate, or friends; and as it goes ill or well with kingdoms and sta...
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; Ver. 4. _A time to weep, and a time to laugh._] Only we must not invert the order, but weep with men that we may laugh with...
_A time to die_ And as there _is a time to die_, so there is a time to rise again, a set time, when they that lie in the grave shall be remembered. _A time to kill_ When men die a violent death. _A ti...
"A TIME TO WEEP, AND. TIME TO LAUGH;. TIME TO MOURN, AND. TIME TO DANCE." But at times we want to laugh, when it is. time for weeping. Too often we want to feel good all the time and avoid anything th...
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...
A TIME TO WEEP; when men shall have just occasion for weeping and mourning....
Ecclesiastes 3:4 time H6256 weep H1058 (H8800) time H6256 laugh H7832 (H8800) time H6256 mourn H5594 ...
THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE (ECCLESIASTES 3:1). Ecclesiastes 3:1 ‘To everything there is a fixed season, and a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to d...
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...
_A time to kill, and a time to heal _ SPIRITUAL TIMES AND SEASONS The work of grace upon the soul may be divided into two distinct operations of the Spirit of God upon the heart; the one is to break...
_To everything there is a season._ TIMES AND SEASONS IN THE CHURCH The principle which Solomon asserts, and which is of extreme importance in all matters connected with our practical life in this wor...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:1 Poem: A Time for Everything. There is an appropriate occasion for every human event or activity. ⇐
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 3:1. SEASON-TIME.] Season signifies a certain period or term; time denotes a division of time in general. ECCLESIASTES 3:2. A TIME TO PLANT, &C.] Used in O. T. as a met...
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...
2 Corinthians 7:10; 2 Samuel 6:16; Exodus 15:20; Genesis 21:6;...
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...
To weep — When men have just occasion for weeping....