"It never sees the sun and it never knows anything; it is better off than he."never knows anything" -i.e. never knows anything of this life or never knows what life is like.
"better off than he" -the miscarriage is better off than the rich man in this section. Why? Note, Solomon doesn't say that the rich man in this section and the miscarriage are equal, but rather, the miscarriage is better off than such. man.
Rather, it hath not seen nor known the sun: this (the untimely birth) hath rest rather than the other....
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...
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...
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other. THIS - yet it. HATH MORE REST THAN THE OTHER - than the toiling, gloomy miser. The more unenviable is t...
LIFE AN ENIGMA 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
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...
גַּם ־שֶׁ֥מֶשׁ לֹא ־רָאָ֖ה וְ לֹ֣א יָדָ֑ע
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...
MOREOVER, HE HATH NOT SEEN THE SUN,.... This must be spoken of the abortive, and seems to confirm the sense of the former text, as belonging to it; and whereas it has never seen the light of the sun,...
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other. Ver. 5. _Moreover he hath not seen the sun._] A second privilege and prerogative of the poor abortive. No...
_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...
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, he has never had any enjoyment of life, NOR KNOWN ANYTHING, shut out from everything that might bring happiness; THIS HATH MORE REST THAN THE OTHER, that is, the unb...
OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES....
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...
HE HATH NOT SEEN THE SUN; he never beheld the light, and therefore it is not grievous to him to want it; whereas the covetous man saw that light was very pleasant, and therefore the loss of it was irk...
Ecclesiastes 6:5 seen H7200 (H8804) sun H8121 known H3045 (H8804) this H2088 rest H5183 than H2088...
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 5:8-7 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...
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...
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...
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...
Job 14:1; Job 3:10; Psalms 58:8; Psalms 90:7...
More rest — Because he is free from all those encumbrances and vexations to which the covetuous man is long exposed....