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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 5 - Introduction

* What renders devotion vain. (1-3) Of vows, and oppression. (4-8) the vanity of riches shown. (9-7) The right use of riches. (18-20)

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See also Ecclesiastes 5 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The Preacher now begins to address his hearer in the second person. The soliloquy, hitherto unbroken, is henceforth interrupted by personal addresses, which are repeated with increasing frequency from...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VANITIES IN DIVINE SERVICE, IN MURMURING AGAINST OPPRESSION, AND IN RICHES. JOY IN PROSPERITY IS THE GIFT OF GOD._...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 Preacher, (e-5) Strictly, 'a former of assemblies;' see for the sense, though not the same expression, ch. 12.11....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES 5 This chapter contains some rules and directions concerning the worship of God; how persons should behave when they go into the house of God; concerning hearing the word...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 3027. B.C. 977._ In this chapter Solomon discourses concerning the worship of God, prescribing that as a remedy against all those vanities which he had already observed to be in wisdom, learnin...

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