He live - Rather, he hath lived. “He” refers to the man Ecclesiastes 6:3. His want of satisfaction in life, and the dishonor done to his corpse, are regarded as such great evils that they counterbalance his numerous children, and length of days, and render his lot viewed as a whole no better than the common lot of all.
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...
DO NOT ALL. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (in Affirmation), App-6. Compare Ecclesiastes 3:19. ONE PLACE: i.e. Sheol. App-35....
_Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told_ The weariness of life carries the thinker yet further. Carry it to the furthest point conceivable, and still the result is the same. The longer it is,...
NOR KNOWN ANY THING: THIS HATH, &C.— _Nor known the difference of one thing from another:_ Ecclesiastes 6:6. _Nay, though he had lived twice a thousand years, without enjoying happiness, do not both g...
2. It is possible to possess riches which cannot be enjoyed. Ecclesiastes 6:1-6 TEXT 6:1-6 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men 2 a man to whom God has...
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? YEA, THOUGH HE LIVE A THOUSAND YEARS TWICE (i:e., not only almost a thousand years, like Meth...
6:6 not (e-16) Or 'years, and hath seen no good, do not.'...
LIFE AN ENIGMA 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
YET HATH HE SEEN] RV 'and yet enjoy.' TO ONE PLACE?] The grave embraces all alike. 7-12. The conditions of man's life are essentially uncertain. Man's aim is in the main directed to the satisfaction...
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...
THOUGH. — The conjunction here used is only found again in Esther 7:4....
וְ אִלּ֣וּ חָיָ֗ה אֶ֤לֶף שָׁנִים֙ פַּעֲמַ֔יִם...
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...
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...
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...
YEA, THOUGH HE LIVE A THOUSAND YEARS TWICE [TOLD],.... Or two thousand years, which no man ever did, nor even one thousand years; Methuselah, the oldest man, did not live so long as that; this is than...
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? Ver. 6. _Yea, though he live a thousand years._] Which yet never any man did; Methuselah wante...
_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...
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, more than twice as long as the oldest patriarchs from Adam to Noah, YET HATH HE SEEN NO GOOD, his own gloomy covetousness depriving him of any true enj...
OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES....
"EVEN IF THE OTHER MAN LIVES. THOUSAND YEARS TWICE AND DOES NOT ENJOY GOOD THINGS----DO NOT ALL GO TO ONE PLACE?" Even if such. rich man could live 2000 years, twice the lifetime of the oldest man men...
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...
LIVE A THOUSAND YEARS TWICE TOLD; wherein he seems to have a privilege above an untimely birth. _Hath he seen no good_; he hath enjoyed little or no comfort in it, and therefore long life is rather a...
Ecclesiastes 6:6 even H432 lives H2421 (H8804) thousand H505 years H8141 seen H7200 (H8804) goodness H2896 go...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Do not all go to one place?_ ALL MEN’S PLACE Do you know what the wise man means when he offers this question to your consideration, “Do not all go to one place?” The thing, no doubt, here spoken of...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 6:3 Long life and many CHILDREN are among earth’s greatest blessings, but a discontented heart will be unsatisfied even with these....
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...
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 12:7; Ecclesiastes 3:20; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Genesis 5:23;...
Tho' he live — Wherein he seems to have a privilege above an untimely birth. Seen — He hath enjoyed no comfort in it, and therefore long life is rather a curse, than a blessing to him. All — Whether t...