Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ecclesiastes 9:4
Joined — That continues with living men. Hope — He hath not only some comfort for the present, but also hopes of further happiness in this world. Better — Much happier as to the comforts of this world.
Joined — That continues with living men. Hope — He hath not only some comfort for the present, but also hopes of further happiness in this world. Better — Much happier as to the comforts of this world.
Verse Ecclesiastes 9:4. _FOR TO HIM THAT IS JOINED TO ALL THE LIVING THERE IS_ _HOPE_] While a man lives he hopes to _amend_, and he hopes to have a _better lot_; and thus life is spent, hoping to _g...
FOR TO HIM - Rather: “Yet to him.” Notwithstanding evils, life has its advantage, and especially when compared with death. DOG - To the Hebrews a type of all that was contemptible 1 Samuel 17:43....
CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The common fate (Ecclesiastes 9:1)_ 2. Make the best of life (Ecclesiastes 9:7) 3. The great uncertainty (Ecclesiastes 9:11)...
ECCLESIASTES 8:16 TO ECCLESIASTES 9:16. LIFE'S RIDDLE BAFFLES THE WISEST QUEST. The parenthesis in Ecclesiastes 8:16_ b_ describes the ceaseless effort of the keen student of life, or perhaps the fate
FOR TO HIM THAT IS JOINED. Connect this with the end of preceding verse and render "For who is excepted? To all the living", &c. HOPE. confidence. Hebrew. _bittahon_ (from _batah)_. App-69. Occurs on...
_For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope_ A different and preferable punctuation gives the rendering: FOR WHO IS SPECIALLY CHOSEN, _i.e._ WHO IS EXCEPTED from the common lot of death...
FOR TO HIM THAT IS JOINED TO ALL THE LIVING, THERE IS HOPE— _And surely, whoever is in society, with all the living, hath hope. For a living dog hath a better chance than a dead lion._ The last senten...
4. Work regardless of the similar fate of the godly and the ungodly. Ecclesiastes 9:1-10 TEXT 9:1-10 1 For I have taken all this to my heart and explain it that righteous men, wise men, and their d...
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. FOR TO HIM THAT IS JOINED TO ALL THE LIVING. So the Keri, some manuscripts of Kennicott and R...
LIVE WORTHILY WHILE YOU MAY 1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die....
A LIVING DOG] Life has at any rate one advantage over death. The miserable hope that either positive happiness, or at least better fortune than in the past, may lie before them. The saying receives it...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 9 EVERYONE MUST DIE AT SOME TIME – ECCLESIASTES 9:1-10...
There is a various reading here in the Hebrew. Our translators, following the older translators, adopt the reading of the margin. That of the text gives, instead of “joined,” a word signifying “chosen...
כִּי ־מִי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר _יְחֻבַּ֔ר_† אֶ֥ל כָּל ־הַ...
FOURTH SECTION The Quest Achieved. The Chief Good Is To Be Found, Not In Wisdom, Nor In Pleasure, Nor In Devotion To Affairs And Its Rewards; But In A Wise Use And A Wise Enjoyment Of The Present L...
THE CHIEF GOOD NOT TO BE FOUND IN WISDOM: Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 9:1 1. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his final course...
In view of the evidences of the truth of the affirmation, "vanity... all is vanity," the preacher now turns to its effect on the mind of the man living "under the sun." He extols this worldly wisdom,...
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a (c) living dog is better than a dead lion. (c) He notes the Epicurean and carnal men, who made their body their god, and had no pleasu...
There. Even those who have had the vanity to claim divine honours, never could persuade themselves that they would escape death. But the just forms a different conclusion from the wicked. He looks upo...
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, a...
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...
FOR TO HIM THAT IS JOINED TO ALL THE LIVING THERE IS HOPE,.... That is, who is among the living, is one of them, and, as long as he is, there is hope, if his circumstances are mean, and he is poor and...
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Ver. 4. _For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope._] These are the words of th...
_For to him that is joined to all the living_ That continues with living men; _there is hope_ He hath not only some comfort for the present, but also hopes of further and greater happiness in this wor...
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope, and so the condition of the living is still to be preferred, one should not give way to a sinful hopelessness; FOR A LIVING DOG IS BETTER THA...
CONCERNING HUMAN DESTINY...
"FOR WHOEVER IS JOINED WITH THE LIVING, THERE IS HOPE; SURELY. LIVE DOG IS BETTER THAN. DEAD LION."WHOEVER IS JOINED WITH THE LIVING" -i.e. anyone still alive "THERE IS HOPE" -If there is no God, then...
4-10 The most despicable living man's state, is preferable to that of the most noble who have died impenitent. Solomon exhorts the wise and pious to cheerful confidence in God, whatever their conditi...
THAT IS JOINED TO ALL THE LIVING; that continueth in the land and society of living men. Or, according to the reading of the Hebrew text, THAT IS CHOSEN OR ALLOTTED TO LIFE, whom God hath appointed ye...
Ecclesiastes 9:4 But H4310 is H3426 joined H2266 (H8792) (H8675) H977 (H8792) living H2416 hope...
CHAPTER 9 THE SAME THINGS HAPPEN TO ALL WHETHER THEY BE RIGHTEOUS, WISE OR SONS OF MEN. AND IN THE END ALL DIE IN THE SAME WAY. SO LET THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE LIFE AS THEY MAY AND ENJOY IT FOR GOD HAS ACCE...
‘For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any m...
Ecclesiastes 9:4 The lesson of the Preacher is an old one. While there is life there is hope, and only while there is life. Let us be up and doing, for the night cometh, in which no man can work. Our...
Ecclesiastes 8:16-10 I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth points out that it is impossible for us to construct a satisfactory policy of life. "The work of God," or, as...
CONTENTS: The universality of death and the need of minding the business of life and using wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: While there is life there is opportunity of preparing for dea...
Ecclesiastes 9:5. _The dead know not any thing._ This is explained by the next phrase, _the memory of them is forgotten._ Elijah went up to heaven, or paradise, as the Jews will have it. John 3:13. Si...
_A living dog is better than a dead lion._ SINNERS, LIVING AND DEAD I. Some sinners are more contemptible than others. There is as much difference between some and others as there is between the “do...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 9:1 No matter how difficult or humble a person’s circumstances may be, those circumstances are to be preferred to dying, because A LIVING DOG IS BETTER THAN A DEAD LI...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 9:2. ONE EVENT.] An equal chance or happening—the wisest and best having no special destiny (chap. Ecclesiastes 2:14, and Ecclesiastes 3:19). Chance, in this use of the
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 9:1 One fate happens to all, and the dead are cut off from all the feelings and interests of life in the upper world. ECCLESIASTES 9:1 This continues the subject treated abo...
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them...
Isaiah 38:18; Job 14:7; Job 27:8; Lamentations 3:21; Lamentations 3: