Because they frequently are the instruments and occasions both of their present and eternal destruction, as they feed their pride or luxury, or other hurtful lusts, which waste the body, and shorten the life, and damn the soul; and as they are great temptations to tyrants or thieves, yea, sometimes to relations, or servants, or others, to take away their lives, that they may get their riches.
Verse 13. _RICHES KEPT FOR THE OWNERS THEREOF TO THEIR HURT._] This may be the case through various causes: 1. He may make an improper use of them, and lose his health by them. 2. He may join in an...
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...
UNDER THE SUN. See note on Ecclesiastes 1:3....
_riches kept for the owners thereof_ Yet another aspect of the evils attendant on riches is brought before us, as in ch. Ecclesiastes 2:18-19. Not only do they fail to give any satisfying joy, but the...
THERE IS A SORE EVIL— _There is an aggravation of evil:_ see Ecclesiastes 5:16 and ch. Ecclesiastes 6:2. This verse contains the second general proposition. Earthly goods, and whatever we can acquire...
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...
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...
SORE EVIL. — Ecclesiastes 6:2; Jeremiah 14:17; Nahum 3:19....
_[Ecclesiastes 5:12]_ יֵ֚שׁ רָעָ֣ה חֹולָ֔ה רָאִ֖יתִי תַּ֣חַת
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...
There is a grievous evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches (k) kept for the owners of them to their hurt. (k) When covetous men heap up riches, which turn to their destruction....
_Affliction. Hebrew, "by an evil affair," or accident. (Calmet) --- Who. Hebrew, "and there is nothing in his hand." (Haydock) --- As temporal riches prove detrimental to their owners, so do false phi...
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...
THERE IS A SORE EVIL [WHICH] I HAVE SEEN UNDER THE SUN,.... Or "an evil sickness" m. A sinful disease in the person with whom it is found, and very disagreeable to others to behold; it is enough to ma...
_There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt._ Ver. 13. _There is a sore evil._] Or, An evil disease, _a_ such as breaks the sle...
_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...
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt, carefully taken care of by guardians, but later a snare to the possessors, plunging them...
ABSTAINING FROM VICES AND FOSTERING VIRTUES...
"THERE IS. GRIEVOUS EVIL WHICH. HAVE SEEN UNDER THE SUN: RICHES BEING HOARDED BY THEIR OWNER TO HIS HURT....
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...
Ecclesiastes 5:13 is H3426 severe H2470 (H8802) evil H7451 seen H7200 (H8804) sun H8121 Riches H6239 kept
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 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 6:1;...
To their hurt — Because they frequently are the occasions both of their present and eternal destruction....