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Ecclesiastes 5:14
But those riches perish by evil travail, they are lost by the various misfortunes attending wealth; and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand, he is an heir of poverty.
But those riches perish by evil travail, they are lost by the various misfortunes attending wealth; and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand, he is an heir of poverty.
Verse 14. _AND HE BEGETTETH A SON, AND_ THERE IS _NOTHING IN HIS_ _HAND._] He has been stripped of his property by unfortunate trade or by plunderers; and he has nothing to leave to his children....
EVIL TRAVAIL - Adverse accident, or unsuccessful employment (compare Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 4:8)....
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 (Eccle
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...
TRAVAIL. fatigue from toil. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:23, and Ecclesiastes 4:4....
BUT THOSE RICHES PERISH— _For those very riches perish, notwithstanding the constant trouble taken to preserve them; a man begot a son, and not any thing in his hand._...
b. They may be harmful. Ecclesiastes 5:13-17 TEXT 5:13-17 13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to their hurt. 14 When those riches were...
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. A SORE EVIL ... Proofs of God's judgments even in this world (). The rich oppressor's...
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...
_There is_ NOTHING IN HIS HAND] Through a reverse of fortune the wealth, which should have descended to the son, has disappeared. The case is thus the converse misfortune to that of Ecclesiastes 4:8....
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...
EVIL TRAVAIL. — Unsuccessful business. NOTHING IN HIS HAND. — The same words occur in a literal sense in Judges 14:6....
_[Ecclesiastes 5:13]_ וְ אָבַ֛ד הָ עֹ֥שֶׁר הַ...
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...
AND A MORE HELPFUL AND CONSOLATORY TRUST IN THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE. Ecclesiastes 5:8 Not content with this, however, the Preacher goes on to show how, when they returned from the House of God to the c...
AND TO TAKE FROM LIFE ITS QUIET AND INNOCENT ENJOYMENTS. Ecclesiastes 5:10 (e) Now surely a life so thick with perils, so beset with temptations, should have a very large and certain reward to offer....
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...
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...
But those riches perish by evil labour: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his (l) hand. (l) He does not enjoy his father's riches....
_Labour. All must die in this manner. But it is most afflicting that he was formerly rich, and must leave his son indigent. (Calmet)_...
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...
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...
BUT THOSE RICHES PERISH BY EVIL TRAVAIL,.... Or, "by an evil business or affair" n. That is, such riches as are not well got, or are not used as they should be, these waste away and come to nothing; e...
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand. Ver. 14. _But those riches perish by evil travail,_] _i.e., _ By evil trading, trafficking, or oth...
_There is a sore evil_, &c. “There is another thing, which is very calamitous, and may rather be called a grievous plague than a mere affliction; that these very treasures, which men have heaped up wi...
"WHEN THOSE RICHES WERE LOST THROUGH. BAD INVESTMENT AND HE HAD FATHERED. SON, THEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO SUPPORT HIM." "Here, then, is. man who loses all his money at. single blow, leaving his family...
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...
BUT, or _for_, or _or_, or _moreover_; for this particle is so rendered by divers others, both here and in other places of Scripture. THOSE RICHES PERISH: if they be kept, it is to the owner's hurt; a...
Ecclesiastes 5:14 riches H6239 perish H6 (H8804) misfortune H7451 begets H6045 H3205 (H8689) son H1121 nothin
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...
Ecclesiastes 5:9 ; ECCLESIASTES 6:1 I. In all grades of society human subsistence is very much the same. Even princes are not fed with ambrosia, nor do poets subsist on asphodel. The profit of the ea...
Ecclesiastes 5:8-7 I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superintendence of human affairs. This belief Koheleth now pro...
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: 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...
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...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:8 Life “Under the Sun.” The Preacher observes the hardships of life in a fallen world. ⇐...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:13 RICHES WERE KEPT... TO HIS HURT. A man endured hardship and sacrificed in order to acquire wealth but was never able to enjoy it, because it was LOST IN A BAD VE...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 5:13. TO THEIR HURT] Inasmuch as they, at length, lose those possessions (Ecclesiastes 5:14). The owner is more unhappy than if he had never possessed at all. Eccl
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 observa...
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...
1 Kings 14:26; 1 Samuel 2:36; 1 Samuel 2:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Hagg
Perish — By some wicked practices, either his own, or of other men. Nothing — In the son's possession after his father's death....