Or, Also this have I seen - wisdom under the sun, and great it seemed to me. From this verse to the end of Ecclesiastes 10, the writer inculcates, in a series of proverbs, wisdom in contrast to folly...
2. PRAISE OF WISDOM AND PHILOSOPHY, THEFINAL WORD AND THE GREAT CONCLUSION CHAPTER 9:13-18 Before he had declared that wisdom is strength. He comes back to this statement and gives an illustration o...
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
_This wisdom have I seen also_ The DEBATER points the moral of his previous maxim by a special illustration and it can scarcely be doubted that it was one which his first readers would recognise, thou...
6. Wisdom is declared to be the greatest guide in our work. Ecclesiastes 9:13-18 TEXT 9:13-18 13 Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me. 14 There was a small city wi...
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: THIS WISDOM HAVE I SEEN - I have seen wisdom exhibited in the way described in what follows. IT (SEEMED) GREAT UNTO ME - inas...
LIVE WORTHILY WHILE YOU MAY 1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die....
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...
גַּם ־זֹ֛ה רָאִ֥יתִי חָכְמָ֖ה תַּ֣חַת הַ שָּׁ
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...
NOR IN DEVOTION TO AFFAIRS AND ITS REWARDS. Ecclesiastes 9:13; Ecclesiastes 10:1 So far, then, Coheleth has been occupied in retracing the argument of the first Section of the Book. Now he returns up...
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,...
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skil...
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...
THIS WISDOM HAVE I SEEN ALSO UNDER THE SUN,.... Or, "this also I have seen under the sun, even wisdom" h: besides those things he had, just now observed, he took notice that there was such a thing as...
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it [seemed] great unto me: Ver. 13. _This wisdom also have I seen,_] _i.e., _ This fruit and effect of wisdom have I observed, that through the iniquit...
_This wisdom have I seen_ I have observed this among many other instances and effects of wisdom. Which he adds for the commendation of wisdom, notwithstanding its insufficiency for man's safety and ha...
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:...
WISDOM STILL TO BE SOUGHT...
"ALSO THIS. CAME TO SEE AS WISDOM UNDER THE SUN, AND IT IMPRESSED ME." Solomon notes that he has an example of human wisdom that made. large impact on him. The following account demonstrates the temp...
13-18 A man may, by his wisdom, bring to pass that which he could never do by his strength. If God be for us, who can be against us, or stand before us? Solomon observes the power of wisdom, though i...
THIS WISDOM HAVE I SEEN; I have observed this among many other instances and effects of wisdom; which he seems to add for the commendation of wisdom, notwithstanding its insufficiency for man's safety...
Ecclesiastes 9:13 This H2090 wisdom H2451 seen H7200 (H8804) sun H8121 great H1419...
A PARABLE OF WISDOM AND INGRATITUDE (ECCLESIASTES 9:13). Ecclesiastes 9:13 ‘I have seen also wisdom under the sun like this. There was a small city and few men in it. And there came a great king agai...
SAYINGS ABOUT THE WISE (ECCLESIASTES 9:11 TO ECCLESIASTES 10:12). His philosophy having come up with the fact that all a man has to look forward to is the life just described, the Preacher now recogni...
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...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 9:13. THIS WISDOM.] The special instance of the power of wisdom related in the next verse. ECCLESIASTES 9:14. FEW MEN WITHIN IT.] Not a city with a scanty population, b...
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...
Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:15; Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 9:11...
This wisdom — I have observed this among many other instances of wisdom. Which he adds for the commendation of wisdom, notwithstanding its insufficiency for man's happiness without God's blessing....