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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;...
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NO BURIAL - For a corpse to lie unburied was a circumstance in itself
of special ignominy and dishonor (compare the marginal references)....
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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
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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...
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FILLED. satisfied....
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_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...
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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...
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2. It is possible to possess riches which cannot be enjoyed.
Ecclesiastes 6:1-6
TEXT 6:1-6
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent
among men
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a man to whom God has...
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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...
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LIFE AN ENIGMA
1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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אִם ־יֹולִ֣יד אִ֣ישׁ מֵאָ֡ה וְ
שָׁנִים֩ רַבֹּ
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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
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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...
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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]...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES....
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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Ecclesiastes 6:3 man H376 begets H3205 (H8686) hundred H3967 lives
H2421 (H8799) many H7227 years H8141 days...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 28:5; 1 Samuel 2:20; 1 Samuel 2:21; 2 Chronicles 11:21;...
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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....