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Ecclesiastes 4:7-11

ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON Ecclesiastes 4:7 Some people engage in endless toil yet are never satisfied even though they acquire great riches. On the other hand there are those who give up their jealous desires to always be the best; they discover that two are better than one as they share their work load, enjoying a good reward and finding help in hard times.

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See also Ecclesiastes 4:7-11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. Attain your riches for practical good. Ecclesiastes 4:7-12 TEXT 4:7-12 7 Then I looked again at vanity under the sun. 8 There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor a b...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    VICISSITUDES OF LIFE. 'OH, THE PITY OF IT!' 1-3. The mass of human suffering and the absence of pity are such that better off are the dead and still more the unborn. It is not only through God's ord...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TWO more ills of life are covetousness aria loneliness....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שַׁ֧בְתִּי אֲנִ֛י וָ אֶרְאֶ֥ה הֶ֖בֶל תַּ֥ח

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    AND BY HUMAN INJUSTICE AND PERVERSITY. Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ecclesiastes 4:1 But not only are our endeavours to find the "good" of our labours thwarted by the gracious, inflexible laws of the just God...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    IT IS RENDERED HOPELESS BY THE BASE ORIGIN OF HUMAN INDUSTRIES. Ecclesiastes 4:4 This stinging sense of the miserable estate of his race has, however, diverted the Preacher from the conduct of the ma...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7,8 Frequently, the more men have, the more they would have; and on this they are so intent, that they get no enjoyment from what they have. Selfishness is the cause of this evil. A selfish man cares...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ecclesiastes 4:7 returned H7725 (H8804) saw H7200 (H8799) vanity H1892 sun H8121...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So I returned, and I considered all of the oppressions that are done under the sun: and the tears of those that are oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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