Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ecclesiastes 2:17
Life — My life was a burden to me. Is grievous — All human designs and works are so far from yielding me satisfaction, that the consideration of them increases my discontent.
Life — My life was a burden to me. Is grievous — All human designs and works are so far from yielding me satisfaction, that the consideration of them increases my discontent.
Verse 17. _THEREFORE I HATED LIFE_] את החיים _et hachaiyim, the_ _lives_, both of the _wise_, the _madman_, and the _fool_. Also all the _stages_ of life, the _child_, the _man_, and the _sage_. There...
Solomon having found that wisdom and folly agree in being subject to vanity, now contrasts one with the other Ecclesiastes 2:13. Both are brought under vanity by events Ecclesiastes 2:14 which come on...
CHAPTER 2THE RESULTS OF THE SEARCH AND DIFFERENT VANITIES _ 1. His personal experience (Ecclesiastes 2:1)_ 2. Various vanities and a conclusion (Ecclesiastes 2:12) Ecclesiastes 2:1
Qoheleth turns to the study of human nature in its wisdom and its folly. Though all is vanity yet wisdom is better than folly; it is better to face the outlook, dreary though it be, with intelligence,...
ECCLESIASTES 1:12 TO ECCLESIASTES 2:26. QOHELETH'S INVESTIGATIONS. Assuming the character of Solomon the writer tells of his search for happiness under many forms. The pursuit of wisdom (Ecclesiastes...
LIFE. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Subject) for the pleasure enjoyed in it....
_Therefore I hated life_ Better, AND I HATED. Of such a temper, the extremest form of pessimism, suicide would seem the natural and logical outcome. In practice, however, the sages who have thus moral...
_THE VANITY OF LIVING WISELY -- ECCLESIASTES 2:12-17:_ Solomon reflected on what a common man could do to find true happiness when he, with all his resources, had not been able to do so._ _ He could o...
THEREFORE I HATED LIFE— From the 12th to this verse, we have a review of the second _proof;_ first, with respect to wisdom. The more one compares together wisdom or knowledge, and ignorance, which no...
2. Conclusions Ecclesiastes 2:12-26 a. Value of this wisdom and pleasure stop at the grave. Ecclesiastes 2:12-17 TEXT 2:12-17 12 So I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly, for what will the...
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. THEREFORE I HATED LIFE. Disappointed in one experiment after an...
VEXATION OF SPIRIT] see Ecclesiastes 1:14. 18-23. Besides, no one knows what his heir may do....
EPICUREANISM AND WISDOM ALIKE PROFITLESS 1-3. The writer makes enjoyment his quest, while aware that it is folly, and avoiding excess in a philosophic spirit....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 2 THE TEST TO DISCOVER WHAT MAKES A PERSON HAPPY – ECCLESIASTES 2:1-11...
IS GRIEVOUS. — Rather, _was. _...
וְ שָׂנֵ֨אתִי֙ אֶת ־הַ֣ חַיִּ֔ים כִּ֣י רַ֤ע
24-26, VAIN UNDERTAKINGS Ecclesiastes 2:1-17 At the beginning of his search for happiness Solomon erected a splendid home and planned all kinds of delights of an artistic and sensuous nature. There w...
Turning from the pursuit of knowledge to the pathway of pleasure, the king had given himself up to mirth, seeking the false stimulus of wine. In this also he had been disappointed, finding that mirth...
_Life. Hebrew, "I hated life," as all is attended with anxiety, Romans vii. 24._...
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool. (17) Therefore I ha...
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...
THEREFORE I HATED LIFE,.... Not strictly and simply understood, since life is the gift of God; and a great blessing it is, more than raiment, and so dear to a man, that he will give all he has for it:...
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. Ver. 17. _Therefore I hated life,_] _i.e., _ I less loved it...
_Therefore I hated life_ My life, though accompanied with so much honour, and pleasure, and wisdom, was a burden to me, and I was ready to wish, either that I had never been born, or that I might spee...
Therefore I hated life, he was filled with weariness and loathing toward all that this life has to offer; BECAUSE THE WORK THAT IS WROUGHT UNDER THE SUN IS GRIEVOUS UNTO ME, the contemplation of it al...
Solomon's own Example...
"SO. HATED LIFE, FOR THE WORK WHICH HAD BEEN DONE UNDER THE SUN WAS GRIEVOUS TO ME; BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS FUTILITY AND STRIVING AFTER WIND"."SO. HATED LIFE" -Here is why some people end up old and gru...
12-17 Solomon found that knowledge and prudence were preferable to ignorance and folly, though human wisdom and knowledge will not make a man happy. The most learned of men, who dies a stranger to Ch...
I HATED LIFE; my life, though accompanied with so much honour, and pleasure, and wisdom, was a burden to me, and I was apt to wish either that I had never been born, or that I might speedily die. THE...
Ecclesiastes 2:17 hated H8130 (H8804) life H2416 work H4639 done H6213 (H8738) sun H8121 distressing H7451
A RETURN TO PHILOSOPHY AND ITS HOPELESSNESS (ECCLESIASTES 2:12). Ecclesiastes 2:12 ‘And I turned my mind to observing wisdom and madness and folly. For what can a man do who follows what a king has...
Ecclesiastes 2:16 I. The noblest renown is posthumous fame, and the most refined ambition is the desire for such fame. And of this more exalted ambition it would appear that Solomon had felt the stirr...
Ecclesiastes 1:12-2 I. As was natural in so wise a man, the Preacher turns first to wisdom. It is the wisdom that is born of wide and varied experience, not of abstract study. He acquaints himself wit...
CONTENTS: Solomon shows that there is no true happiness and satisfaction to be had in mirth, pleasure and the delights of sense. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: True and lasting happiness and...
Ecclesiastes 2:1. _Enjoy pleasure._ The first doctrine of Epicurus, whose system is here rebutted. Acts 17:18. Ecclesiastes 2:2. _I said of laughter,_ of all forced and frantic joy, _it is mad._ Chald...
_Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth._ THE THREEFOLD VIEW OF HUMAN LIFE Three views of human life are given in this remarkable chapter. I. The theatrical view of life (Ecclesiastes 2:1). The wri...
_Therefore I hated life._ IS LIFE WORTH LIVING “Is life worth living?” is a question that is continually coming before the public mind in one form or another. When Mr. Maddock’s book appeared, as man...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 2:17 The limitations of wisdom lead the Preacher to say that he HATED LIFE. Elsewhere he states that life is superior to death and commends its enjoyment, so this sta...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Ecclesiastes 2:17_ THE CONFESSIONS OF A PLEASURE-SEEKER I. THAT HIS LIFE’S PROMISE HAS FAILED. The pleasure-seeker begins life with high hopes. The intoxication of...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 2:1 Section 2. _Vanity of striving after pleasure and wealth._ ECCLESIASTES 2:1 Dissatisfied with the result of the pursuit of wisdom, Koheleth embarks on a course of sensua...
So I said in my heart, Go to now, I'm going to prove thee with [pleasure,] with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: but, behold, this was vanity (Ecclesiastes 2:1). So we read in the New Testament the ep...
1 Kings 19:4; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ecclesiastes 2:11;...
VANITY AND VEXATION UNDER THE SUN Ecclesiastes 2:11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We shall introduce our study with quotations from our booklet on Ecclesiastes. Solomon had tried everything which his heart co...