Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ecclesiastes 6:3
With good — He hath not a contented mind and comfortable enjoyment of his estate. Is better — Which as it never enjoyed the comforts, so it never felt the calamities of life.
With good — He hath not a contented mind and comfortable enjoyment of his estate. Is better — Which as it never enjoyed the comforts, so it never felt the calamities of life.
Verse Ecclesiastes 6:3. _IF A MAN BEGET A HUNDRED_ CHILDREN] If he have the most numerous family and the largest possessions, and is so much attached to his riches that he grudges himself a monument;...
NO BURIAL - For a corpse to lie unburied was a circumstance in itself of special ignominy and dishonor (compare the marginal references)....
CHAPTER 6 DISHEARTENING CONTRADICTIONS _ 1. Riches--Inability to enjoy them (Ecclesiastes 6:1)_ 2. Having All--Yet no fill of the soul (Ecclesiastes 6:3) 3. The sad ending wail (Eccle
ECCLESIASTES 6. FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON WEALTH AND FATE. Parallel with the bitter experience of the avaricious man who loses his wealth is that of the rich and successful man whose cherished desires ar...
FILLED. satisfied....
_If a man beget an hundred children_ A case is put, the very opposite of that described in the preceding verse. Instead of being childless the rich man may have children, and children's children; may...
IF A MAN BEGET— _Though a man should beget an hundred children, and live many years; nay, though he should be a senator, on account of the days of his years; if should not enjoy his prosperity, nor ev...
2. It is possible to possess riches which cannot be enjoyed. Ecclesiastes 6:1-6 TEXT 6:1-6 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men 2 a man to whom God has...
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is...
LIFE AN ENIGMA 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
AND HIS SOUL] RV 'But his soul.' Misfortunes may render him miserable, though he has abundance of children and of years of life. Examples are Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 11:21) and Ahab (2 Kings 10:1). _Th...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 6 A PERSON’S LIFE THAT IS NOT SATISFACTORY – ECCLESIASTES 6:1-6...
That a man should be so occupied in the pursuit of riches as never to take any enjoyment from them is a common experience enough; but that the same man should have no sepulchre to preserve his name af...
אִם ־יֹולִ֣יד אִ֣ישׁ מֵאָ֡ה וְ שָׁנִים֩ רַבֹּ
THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the C
The preacher knows prosperity experimentally far better than poverty. Moreover, by observation he is more familiar with men of wealth than with poor men, and, therefore, he returns to a declaration of...
If a man begetteth an hundred [children], and liveth many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not (b) filled with good, and also [that] he hath no (c) burial; I say, [that]...
_Than he, since the latter has injured no one, nor experienced any evil in the world, (Calmet) by his own fault; (Menochius) whereas the miser has both hurt himself and others, and has neglected to ma...
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is...
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...
IF A MAN BEGET AN HUNDRED [CHILDREN],.... Sons and daughters, a certain number for an uncertain. Some have had many children, and almost this number; Rehoboam had twenty eight sons and threescore daug...
If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely bir...
Ecc. 6:3. "So that the days of his years be many and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he _have no burial. _ I say that an untimely birth is better than he." _Have no burial, i. e. _ is...
_If a man beget a hundred children_ Very many, to whom he intends to leave his estate; _and live many years_ Which is the chief thing that he desires, and which gives him opportunity of increasing his...
If a man beget an hundred children, the possession of a great many children being considered a most extraordinary blessing of the Lord, AND LIVE MANY YEARS, In a long and happy life, SO THAT THE DAYS...
OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES....
"IF. MAN FATHERS. HUNDRED CHILDREN AND LIVES MANY YEARS, HOWEVER MANY THEY BE, BUT HIS SOUL IS NOT SATISFIED WITH GOOD THINGS, AND HE DOES NOT EVEN HAVE. PROPER BURIAL, THEN. SAY, 'BETTER THE MISCARRI...
1-6 A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no good or comfortable use of what he has. By one means or other...
AN HUNDRED CHILDREN, i.e. very many children, to whom he intends to leave his estate. LIVE MANY YEARS; which is the chief thing that he desires, and which giveth him opportunity of increasing his esta...
Ecclesiastes 6:3 man H376 begets H3205 (H8686) hundred H3967 lives H2421 (H8799) many H7227 years H8141 days...
LIFE IS NOT ENJOYABLE TO EVEN SOME OF THE RICH (ECCLESIASTES 6:1). Ecclesiastes 6:1 ‘There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavily on men. A man to whom God gives riches, weal...
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 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...
CONTENTS: The vanity of worldly wealth as pertaining only to the body. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: Man deprives himself of the good he might have had of his worldly possessions by not cons...
Ecclesiastes 6:2. _But a stranger eateth it._ The richer families in Israel had often foreign servants, who rose to influence in their master's house. But greater was the affliction from invading armi...
_If a man live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, I say that an untimely birth is better than he._ THE SORROWS OF OLD AGE The wise Preacher supp...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 6:3 Long life and many CHILDREN are among earth’s greatest blessings, but a discontented heart will be unsatisfied even with these....
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 6:1. COMMON AMONG MEN] In the strict meaning of the word, the reference is to the magnitude of the evil, and not to the frequency of it. That which appears to be good is...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 6:1 Section 9. Koheleth proceeds to illustrate the fact which he stated at the end of the last chapter, viz. that the possession and enjoyment of wealth are alike the free gif...
Now there is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it's common among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires (E...
1 Chronicles 28:5; 1 Samuel 2:20; 1 Samuel 2:21; 2 Chronicles 11:21;...