Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ecclesiastes 2:18
All my labour — All these riches and buildings, and other fruits of my labour, were aggravations of my misery. Because — Because I must, and that everlastingly, leave them all behind me.
All my labour — All these riches and buildings, and other fruits of my labour, were aggravations of my misery. Because — Because I must, and that everlastingly, leave them all behind me.
Verse 18. _I HATED ALL MY LABOUR_] Because, 1. It has not answered the end for which it was instituted. 2. I can enjoy the fruits of it but a short time. 3. I must leave it to others, and know not...
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
Even if one has amassed wealth there is the bitterness of not knowing who will inherit it or how the heir will use it. Everything has to be left behind to an uncertain fate, for there is no guarantee...
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...
LABOUR. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for all that is produced by toil. TAKEN. toiled....
_because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me_ The history of the great ones of the earth presents not a few parallel utterances. Mazarin walks through the galleries of his palace and...
_THE VANITY OF TOIL -- ECCLESIASTES 2:18-23:_ When Solomon stopped to consider his life he hated what he had done. He had spent his life collecting stuff to leave to someone else. He realized that the...
b. The legacy of one's labor is often lost to fools when one dies. Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 TEXT 2:18-23 18 Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leav...
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. I HATED ALL MY LABOUR ... BECAUSE I SHOULD LEAVE IT UNTO THE MAN THAT SHAL...
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...
Eccles. 9:19. There seems to be no special reference to Rehoboam, but only the assertion of the general principle that the wisest of men must leave all that his labour has gained to be enjoyed by anot...
וְ שָׂנֵ֤אתִֽי אֲנִי֙ אֶת ־כָּל ־עֲמָלִ֔י שֶׁ
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...
CHAPTER II....
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...
YEA, I HATED ALL MY LABOUR WHICH I HAD TAKEN UNDER THE SUN,.... The great works he made, the houses he built; the vineyards, gardens, and orchards he planted, c. what he got by his labour, his riches...
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. Ver. 18. _Yea, I hated all my labour,_] _i.e., _ I was sorry to think that I...
_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...
Yea, I hated, regarded with disgust and aversion, ALL MY LABOR WHICH I HAD TAKEN UNDER THE SUN, with which he had exerted himself; BECAUSE I SHOULD LEAVE IT UNTO THE MAN THAT SHALL BE AFTER ME, his su...
Solomon's own Example...
TAKEN: _ Heb._ laboured...
"THUS. HATED ALL THE FRUIT OF MY LABOR FOR WHICH. HAD LABORED UNDER THE SUN, FOR. MUST LEAVE IT TO THE MAN WHO WILL COME AFTER ME."ALL THE FRUIT OF MY LABOR" -not only did life lose its meaning, but a...
18-26 Our hearts are very loth to quit their expectations of great things from the creature; but Solomon came to this at length. The world is a vale of tears, even to those that have much of it. See...
I HATED ALL MY LABOUR WHICH I HAD TAKEN UNDER THE SUN; all these riches and buildings, and other fruits of my labour, were the matter of my repentance, and aggravations of my misery, because I must, a...
Ecclesiastes 2:18 hated H8130 (H8804) labor H5999 toiled H6001 sun H8121 leave H3240 (H8686) man H120 after
WHAT USE OUR EFFORTS WHEN WE MUST LEAVE ALL BEHIND TO THOSE WHO WILL MISUSE IT? (ECCLESIASTES 2:18). Ecclesiastes 2:18 ‘And I hated all my effort with which I exerted myself under the sun, seeing tha...
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...
_Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me._ THE DIRGE OF THE DEAD HAND Solomon’s life was complete from the naturalist...
_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...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 2:18 I HATED ALL MY TOIL. While at times the Preacher found pleasure in his work, his enjoyment is severely lessened by the knowledge that he must eventually hand ove...
_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 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Kings 11:11; Acts 20:29; Acts 20:30;...
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...