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Ecclesiastes 6:1
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men, it weighs heavily upon a great many unfortunate people;
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men, it weighs heavily upon a great many unfortunate people;
CHAPTER VI _The vanity of riches without use_, 1, 2. _Of children and of old age without riches and enjoyment_, 3-7. _Man does not know what is good for himself_, 8-12. NOTES ON CHAP. VI...
COMMON AMONG - Rather, great (heavy) upon people....
CHAPTER 6 DISHEARTENING CONTRADICTIONS _ 1. Riches--Inability to enjoy them (Ecclesiastes 6:1)_ 2. Having All--Yet no fill of the soul (Ecclesiastes 6:3) 3. The sad ending wail (Eccle
ECCLESIASTES 6. FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON WEALTH AND FATE. Parallel with the bitter experience of the avaricious man who loses his wealth is that of the rich and successful man whose cherished desires ar...
UNDER THE SUN. See note on Ecclesiastes 1:3. MEN. Hebrew. _adam_ (with Art.). humanity. App-14. See note on Ecclesiastes 1:13....
_There is an evil which I have seen under the sun_ The picture is substantially the same as that of ch. Ecclesiastes 4:7-8. The repetition is characteristic, consciously or unconsciously, of the pessi...
2. It is possible to possess riches which cannot be enjoyed. Ecclesiastes 6:1-6 TEXT 6:1-6 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men 2 a man to whom God has...
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: AN EVIL ... COMMON AMONG MEN - or else, more literally, great upon man, falls heavily upon man. Wealth, which seems, o...
6:1 among (c-16) Or 'it is great upon men (the _ Adam_ ).'...
COMMON AMONG] RV 'heavy upon.'...
LIFE AN ENIGMA 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 6 A PERSON’S LIFE THAT IS NOT SATISFACTORY – ECCLESIASTES 6:1-6...
VI. (1) COMMON AMONG. — Rather, _heavy upon._ In this section it is remarked how even when riches remain with a man to the end of his life they may fail to bring him any real happiness....
יֵ֣שׁ רָעָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר רָאִ֖יתִי תַּ֣חַת הַ שּׁ
THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the C
The preacher knows prosperity experimentally far better than poverty. Moreover, by observation he is more familiar with men of wealth than with poor men, and, therefore, he returns to a declaration of...
CONTENTS The Preacher openeth this Chapter with a strong proof of vanity in one man laying up for another; and the fruit of all his labours enjoyed by a stranger. He shows that the longest life spent...
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: (2) A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desire...
_A COMMON EVIL_ ‘There is an evil … common among men.’ Ecclesiastes 6:1 I. THROUGHOUT THIS SIXTH CHAPTER THE PREACHER IS SPEAKING OF THE LOVER OF RICHES, NOT SIMPLY OF THE RICH MAN; NOT AGAINST WEA...
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...
THERE IS AN EVIL WHICH I HAVE SEEN UNDER THE SUN,.... The Vulgate Latin version reads it, another evil; but wrongly, for the same is considered as before, the evil of covetousness; which is one of the...
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men: Ver. 1. _There is an evil that I have seen under the sun._] This wretched life is so pestered with evils that the Preac...
_There is an evil which I have seen_, &c. A most wretched, miserable disposition reigning among mankind: _A man to whom God hath given riches_, &c. When a man is blessed by God with all sorts of riche...
"THERE IS AN EVIL WHICH. HAVE SEEN UNDER THE SUN AND IT IS PREVALENT AMONG MEN" Here is another misfortune, calamity and hardship that Solomon personally witnessed that happens under the sun. Not only...
1-6 A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no good or comfortable use of what he has. By one means or other...
ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 6 The vanity of riches without use, ECCLESIASTES 6:1,2. Of children and old age without competent wealth; their obscurity is worse than not to have been, ECCLESIASTES 6:3. All lab...
Ecclesiastes 6:1 is H3426 evil H7451 seen H7200 (H8804) sun H8121 common H7227 men H120...
LIFE IS NOT ENJOYABLE TO EVEN SOME OF THE RICH (ECCLESIASTES 6:1). Ecclesiastes 6:1 ‘There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavily on men. A man to whom God gives riches, weal...
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 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...
CONTENTS: The vanity of worldly wealth as pertaining only to the body. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: Man deprives himself of the good he might have had of his worldly possessions by not cons...
Ecclesiastes 6:2. _But a stranger eateth it._ The richer families in Israel had often foreign servants, who rose to influence in their master's house. But greater was the affliction from invading armi...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 6:1. COMMON AMONG MEN] In the strict meaning of the word, the reference is to the magnitude of the evil, and not to the frequency of it. That which appears to be good is...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 6:1 Section 9. Koheleth proceeds to illustrate the fact which he stated at the end of the last chapter, viz. that the possession and enjoyment of wealth are alike the free gif...
Now there is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it's common among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires (E...
Ecclesiastes 5:13...