"I have seen all the living under the sun throng to the side of the second lad who replaces him."
The second lad is the young lad mentioned in Ecclesiastes 4:13. "Solomon places himself in the position of. spectator, and marks how numerous are the adherents who flock around the youthful king" (P.P. Comm. p. 91). All the world loves this new king.
Verse 15. _WITH THE SECOND CHILD THAT SHALL STAND UP_] The _Targum_ applies this to the case of _Jeroboam_ and _Rehoboam_. History affords many instances of mean persons raised to sovereign authority,...
These verses set forth the vanity of earthly prosperity even on a throne. Opinion as to their application is chiefly divided between considering them a parable or fiction like that of the childless ma...
CHAPTER 4 OBSERVATIONS OF DIFFERENT WRONGS _ 1. Concerning oppressions (Ecclesiastes 4:1)_ 2. Concerning envy of fools and the rich (Ecclesiastes 4:4) 3. Concerning the miser (Ecclesiast
ECCLESIASTES 4. A GLOOMY SURVEY. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression (Ecclesiastes 4:1), rivalry (Ecclesiastes 4:4), isolation amounting to self-torture (Ecclesia...
_with the second child that shall stand up in his stead_ If we take the word "second" in its natural meaning, the clause may point either to the wise young ruler of the previous verse, as succeeding ...
I CONSIDERED ALL THE LIVING— _I saw all the living eager to walk under the sun, with the second son who should succeed him._—Ver. 16. _No end of all the people! of all that resorted to them! Yet they...
4. Keep in mind that prestigious positions will soon be forgotten. Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 TEXT 4:13-16 13 A poor, yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receiv...
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. I CONSIDERED ALL THE LIVING - all the present generation of subjects. WITH THE SECOND C...
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...
A man may rise from the lowest to the highest station by wisdom; yet even so there is no permanence....
WITH THE SECOND, etc.] RV 'that they were with the youth, the second, that stood,' etc....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 4 This chapter contains several subjects. 1. PEOPLE WHO SUFFER – ECCLESIASTES 4:1-...
I CONSIDERED. — Heb., _I_ _saw._ Most modern interpreters regard the “second child” as identical with the “young man” of Ecclesiastes 4:13, and understand the passage, “I saw him at the head of all hi...
רָאִ֨יתִי֙ אֶת ־כָּל ־הַ֣ חַיִּ֔ים הַֽ מְהַלּ
YET THESE ARE CAPABLE OF A NOBLER MOTIVE AND MODE. Ecclesiastes 4:9 Now a jealous rivalry culminating in mere avarice, -that surely is not the wisest or noblest spirit of which those are capable who...
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...
SECOND SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20 I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom utters her vo...
From this general survey the preacher returned to examine the condition of the beings whom he had described as being no better than the beasts. He looked out upon them, and saw them in suffering, and...
I considered all the living who walk under the sun, (k) with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. (k) Who follow and flatter the king's son, or him that will succeed to enter into credi...
_Second heir. (Menochius) --- "They adore the rising (Papinius) more than the setting sun;["] (Plut.[Plutarch?] Pomp.) and a person is no sooner on the throne than his successor begins to be courted:...
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. (16) There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also...
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...
I CONSIDERED ALL THE LIVING WHICH WALK UNDER THE SUN,.... All men that were then alive, who were capable of walking upon the earth; even all of them that were under the heavens, in every land and nati...
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. Ver. 15. _I considered all the living, &c._] He means the multitude, that shallow brained...
_I considered all the living_ The general disposition of common people in all kingdoms, that they are fickle and inconstant, weary of their old governors, and desirous of changes; _with the second chi...
EVILS OF SOCIAL AND CIVIL LIFE...
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, observing the great number of adherents which the poor person elevated to power in the country had gained, WITH THE SECOND CHILD THAT SHALL STAND...
13-16 People are never long easy and satisfied; they are fond of changes. This is no new thing. Princes see themselves slighted by those they have studied to oblige; this is vanity and vexation of spi...
I CONSIDERED ALL THE LIVING; the general disposition or humour of common people in all kingdoms, that they are fickle and inconstant, weary of their old governors, and desirous of changes. WHICH WALK...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 saw H7200 (H8804) living H2416 walk H1980 (H8764) sun H8121 second H8145 youth H3206 sta
THE YOUNG MEN AND THE FOOLISH KING. We are now provided with a further example of folly, the folly of seeking a position of power and authority which will only in the end result in disappointment. (B...
CHAPTER 4 THE DREADFULNESS OF OPPRESSION. GUIDANCE ON LIVING. This chapter begins with considering the dreadfulness of oppression and then continues with thoughts on living, giving both good and bad...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had no voice in making; that we often lie at th...
CONTENTS: Discontent and impatience because of the oppressions and iniquities of life. CHARACTERS: Solomon. CONCLUSION: The world is full of trouble. By reason of man's perversity, he is ever distur...
Ecclesiastes 4:2. _Wherefore I praised the dead more than the living,_ who are robbed, fleeced, and exposed to incessant afflictions, from oppression and war. Solomon alludes to extreme cases, such as...
_Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished._ ON THE ADVANTAGES OF CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE TO THE LOWER ORDERS OF SOCIETY There is no topic on which th...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 4:13 The Preacher recalls an example of the temporary results of wisdom. In contrast to AN OLD AND FOOLISH KING, there once was A POOR AND WISE YOUTH who managed to r...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 4:13. BETTER IS A POOR AND A WISE CHILD.] Not in the moral point of view, but happier—better off. ECCLESIASTES 4:14. FOR OUT OF PRISON HE COMETH TO REIGN.] Reference is...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 4:1 Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of _man_'_s inability to be the architect of his own happiness_._ _There are many things which interrupt or des...
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...
2 Samuel 15:6...
I considered — The general disposition of common people, in all kingdoms, that they are fickle and inconstant. With the second child — This may be understood of the king's child, or son and heir, call...