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Ecclesiastes 7:27
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, this is the result of his experiences, counting one by one, comparing one thing with another, to find out the account, to reach a definite conclusion;
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, this is the result of his experiences, counting one by one, comparing one thing with another, to find out the account, to reach a definite conclusion;
Verse 27. COUNTING _ONE BY ONE_] I have gone over every particular. I have compared one thing with another; man with woman, his wisdom with her wiles; his strength with her blandishments; his influen...
PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12 1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_ 2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15) 3. The strength...
PROVERBS AND REFLECTIONS. After asking, What is good for man in life? (Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisab...
IN DISPRAISE OF WOMEN. All the foregoing maxims have been tested, yet Qoheleth has not attained wisdom (Ecclesiastes 7:23); the true inwardness of things, the ultimate reality, is beyond his efforts ...
COUNTING, &C. Or, supply the Ellipsis thus: "[considering women] one by one", &c. ACCOUNT. result....
_saith the Preacher_ The passage is remarkable as being the solitary instance in the book in which the name _Koheleth_, feminine in form, yet elsewhere treated as masculine, is joined with the feminin...
BEHOLD, THIS HAVE I FOUND, &C.— _Behold, this have I found_ (_saith the orator_), _examining them one by one, to find out the reason of it:_ Ecclesiastes 7:28. _Which my soul seeketh still, without be...
2. Through intensive study, one comes to see the potential within men and women to do evil. Ecclesiastes 7:25-28 TEXT 7:25-28 25 I directed my mind to know, to investigate, and to seek wisdom and a...
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: THIS HAVE I FOUND - namely, what is stated in the previous part of the book (cf. , "All this"), and sum...
PRACTICAL APHORISMS 1-6. Things useful to remember in life. The writer has just warned as that we cannot rely on either the present or the future. We can, however, guide ourselves in the conduct of l...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many special sent...
רְאֵה֙ זֶ֣ה מָצָ֔אתִי אָמְרָ֖ה קֹהֶ֑לֶת אַחַ֥ת...
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 now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of maxi...
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to (s) find out the account: (s) That is, to come to a conclusion....
Her. He speaks by experience, (St. Jerome) as none perhaps ever fell more terribly victims of impure love. (Calmet) --- Though a plurality of wives was then permitted, Solomon did wrong in marrying st...
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: (22) For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. (23) All this h...
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...
BEHOLD, THIS HAVE I FOUND,.... That a harlot is more bitter than death; and which he found by his own experience, and therefore would have it observed by others for their caution: or one man among a t...
_Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one, to find out the account:_ Ver. 27. _Behold, this I have found._] Eυρηκα, Eυρηκα, ‘I have found it, I have found it,' said the ph...
_Behold, saith the preacher_ Or, _the penitent_, who speaks what he hath learned, both by deep study and costly experience; _this have I found_ And it is a strange thing, and worthy of your serious ob...
COUNTING ONE BY ONE TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT: Or, weighing one thing after another to find out the reason...
"BEHOLD,. HAVE DISCOVERED THIS," SAYS THE PREACHER, "ADDING ONE THING TO ANOTHER TO FIND AN EXPLANATION," Solomon was. very detailed and logical thinker. He weighed one point against another point, a...
23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things, had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape;...
BEHOLD; it is a strange thing, and worthy of your serious observation. THE PREACHER; or, _the penitent_, who speaks what he hath learned, both by deep, study and costly experience. COUNTING ONE BY ONE...
Ecclesiastes 7:27 Here H7200 (H8798) found H4672 (H8804) says H559 (H8804) Preacher H6953 one H259 other...
HIS SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING RESULTING FROM HIS WISDOM HAS MADE HIM AWARE OF MAN'S SINFULNESS AND FOLLY (ECCLESIASTES 7:23). Ecclesiastes 7:23 ‘All this I have tested out in wisdom. I said, “I will b...
CHAPTER 7 IT IS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF DEATH, TO LISTEN TO REBUKE, TO BEHAVE WISELY, EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THE WORLD IS FULL OF WICKEDNESS. The emphasis of the book from now on includes the tho...
Ecclesiastes 7:19-8 Koheleth seems to have had a suspicion all the time that his view of life was a low one. He intimates that he had tried for a better, but failed to reach it: "I said, I will be wis...
Ecclesiastes 7 and ECCLESIASTES 8:1 I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities He has given us and the opp...
CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the vanity and vexation of the world. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the v...
Ecclesiastes 7:1. _A good name is better than precious ointment._ Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48. Wisdom and virtue outlive t...
COUNT ING ONE BY ΟNE Counting one by one. Ecclesiastes 7:27 (AV). That is one of the first things we learn to do, isn't it? While we are little more than babies, before we know our alphabet or can r...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 7:25 The Heart of the Problem: Sin. The Preacher has made numerous references to human sinfulness. This short section helps to explain how this sorry condition came a...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 7:27 “Find” is a key word in vv. Ecclesiastes 7:25. It means “figure out” or “comprehend.”...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:27. COUNTING ONE BY ONE, TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT] Collecting the results of many observations—thus forming an opinion carefully and slowly. ECCLESIASTES 7:29. MANY INV...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 7:1 Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED EXPERIENCES IN THE
Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again, it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...
Ecclesiastes 1:1; Ecclesiastes 1:2; Ecclesiastes 12:8; Ecclesiastes 7:25...
To find — That I might make a true and just estimate....