Seeing then all actions and events in the world are out of man's power, and no man can at any time do or enjoy any thing at his pleasure, but only what and when God pleaseth, as hath been now shown in many particulars, and it is as true and certain in all others, hence it follows that all men's labours, of themselves, and without God's help and blessing, are unprofitable, and utterly insufficient to make them happy.
Verse Ecclesiastes 3:9. _WHAT PROFIT HATH HE_] What real good, what solid pleasure, is derived from all the labours of man? _Necessity_ drives him to the principal part of his _cares_ and _toils_; he...
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...
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_What profit hath he that worketh?_ The long induction is completed, and yet is followed by the same despairing question as that of ch. Ecclesiastes 1:3, asked as from a stand-point that commands a wi...
WHAT PROFIT HATH HE THAT WORKETH, &C.— _What remaineth to him that worketh from that upon which he bestoweth his labour?_ The consequence of the preceding proof is obvious. It is not in the power of m...
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...
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? WHAT PROFIT HATH HE THAT WORKETH? But these earthly pursuits, while lawful in their season, are 'unprofitable' when made by man, what...
3:9 laboureth? (a-11) Or 'from the labour with which he worries himself.'...
WHAT PROFIT] how can he be sure that he has found the right season?...
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...
מַה ־יִּתְרֹון֙ הָֽ עֹושֶׂ֔ה בַּ אֲשֶׁ֖ר ה֥וּ
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...
_Labour? What advantage does he derive from any of these things? (Chap. i. 3.) (Calmet)_...
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...
WHAT PROFIT HATH HE THAT WORKETH IN THAT WHEREIN HE LABOURETH?] That is, he has none. This is an inference drawn from the above premises, and confirms what has been before observed, Ecclesiastes 1:3;...
_What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?_ Ver. 9. _What profit hath he that worketh? &c._] _i.e., _ How can any man, by any means he can use, help or hinder this volubility and...
_What profit hath he that worketh_, &c. Seeing then all events are out of man's power, and no man can do or enjoy any thing at his pleasure, but only when God pleaseth, as has been shown in many parti...
What profit hath he that worketh, being engaged in the one or the other of the activities enumerated above, IN THAT WHEREIN HE LABORETH? There is no lasting happiness and satisfaction to be found on t...
THE DEPENDENCE OF MAN UPON THE COURSE OF NATUREV. 1. TO EVERYTHING, all that men undertake or do on earth, THERE IS A SEASON, AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE UNDER THE HEAVEN, under the government and pro...
"WHAT PROFIT IS THERE TO THE WORKER FROM THAT IN WHICH HE TOILS?" That is, what true or lasting profit? For all the events in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 are often momentary or temporary. Once again, we return...
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...
Ecclesiastes 3:9 profit H3504 worker H6213 (H8802) which H834 labors H6001 Ecclesiastes 1:3,...
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 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...
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,...
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...
Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 2:11; Ecclesiastes 2:22; Ecclesiastes 2:23;...
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...
What profit — Seeing then all events are out of man's power, and no man can do or enjoy any thing at his pleasure, but only when God pleaseth, as has been shewed in many particulars, and is as true an...