Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ecclesiastes 6:9
The fight — The comfortable enjoyment of what a man hath. Than — Restless desires of what a man hath not. This — Wandering of the desire.
The fight — The comfortable enjoyment of what a man hath. Than — Restless desires of what a man hath not. This — Wandering of the desire.
Verse Ecclesiastes 6:9. _BETTER_ IS _THE SIGHT OF THE EYES THAN THE WANDERING OF_ _THE DESIRE_] This is translated by the _Vulgate_, as a sort of adage: Melius est videre quod cupias, quam desiderare...
Connect these verses with Ecclesiastes 6:2 : “All labor is undertaken with a view to some profit, but as a rule the people who labor are never satisfied. What advantage then has he who labors if (bein...
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...
BETTER. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:24. THE SIGHT OF. what is seen by. THE WANDERING OF. what is pursued by. THE DESIRE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. No Art. VEXATION OF SPIRIT. See note on Ecc...
_Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire_ Literally, THAN THE WANDERING OF THE SOUL. The truth is substantially that embodied in the fable of "the dog and his shadow" and in p...
BETTER IS THE SIGHT OF THE EYES— The third and last proof, contained in this and the two preceding verses, is taken from the insatiableness of mens' wishes, whereby they are made miserable even when t...
3. Reasons why riches cannot satisfy Ecclesiastes 6:7-9 TEXT 6:7-9 7 All a man's labor is for his mouth and yet his appetite is not satisfied. 8 For what advantage does the wise man have over the...
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. BETTER IS THE SIGHT OF THE EYES ... Answer to , "What hath the wise more than the fool?...
6:9 desire. (f-13) Lit. 'soul.'...
LIFE AN ENIGMA 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
BETTER IS] To enjoy what we have is better than yearning after things which elude our grasp. VEXATION OF SPIRIT] see on Ecclesiastes 1:17....
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...
טֹ֛וב מַרְאֵ֥ה עֵינַ֖יִם מֵֽ הֲלָךְ ־נָ֑פֶשׁ...
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...
Better [is] the (g) sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit. (g) To be content with that which God has given is better than to follow the desi...
_Know. Enjoyment has the advantage over hope. Hebrew, "better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul," which denotes her desires. (Calmet) --- Presumption. Hebrew, "vexation." (Haydock)_...
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. (8) For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? (9) Better is the...
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...
BETTER [IS] THE SIGHT OF THE EYES THAN THE WANDERING OF THE DESIRE,.... By "the sight of the eyes" is not meant the bare beholding outward riches, as in Ecclesiastes 5:11; but the enjoyment of present...
Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit. Ver. 9. _Better is the sight of the eyes, &c., _] _i.e., _ As some sense it, Better i...
_Better is the sight of the eyes_ That is, The comfortable enjoyment of what a man hath, _seeing_ being often put for _enjoying; than the wandering of the desire_ Than restless and insatiable desires...
OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES....
Better is the sight of the eyes, the pleasant and sensible enjoyment of that which this life offers, THAN THE WANDERING OF THE DESIRE, when a person, dissatisfied with his lot, is ever planning someth...
THEN THE WANDERING OF THE DESIRE: _ Heb._ then the walking of the soul...
"WHAT THE EYES SEE IS BETTER THAN WHAT THE SOUL DESIRES. THIS TOO IS FUTILITY AND. STRIVING AFTER WIND."WHAT THE EYES SEE IS BETTER THAN…" -"better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the d...
7-12 A little will serve to sustain us comfortably, and a great deal can do no more. The desires of the soul find nothing in the wealth of the world to give satisfaction. The poor man has comfort as...
THE SIGHT OF THE EYES, i.e. the comfortable enjoyment of what a man hath; for seeing is oft put for enjoying, as PSALMS 34:12 ECCLESIASTES 2:1, ECCLESIASTES 3:13, &c. THE WANDERING OF THE DESIRE; res
Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better H2896 sight H4758 eyes H5869 wandering H1980 (H8800) desire H5315 vanity H1892 grasping H
EVEN THE WISE DO NOT IN THE LAST ANALYSIS HAVE ANY ADVANTAGE OVER THE UNTHINKING. SO WE SHOULD HOLD ON TO WHAT GOD GIVES US RATHER THAN DREAMING OF MORE (ECCLESIASTES 6:8). Ecclesiastes 6:8 ‘For what...
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...
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...
Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:12; Ecclesiastes 3:13; Ecclesiastes 5:18;...