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Verse 26. _AND I FIND MORE BITTER THAN DEATH THE WOMAN_] After all his
investigation of the _wickedness of folly_, and the _foolishness_ _of
madness_, he found nothing equally dangerous and ruinous wi...
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Compare the account of Solomon’s wives 1 Kings 11:1 : see also
Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 5:3......
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PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12
1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure
CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_
2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15)
3. The strength...
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PROVERBS AND REFLECTIONS. After asking, What is good for man in life?
(Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do
by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisab...
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IN DISPRAISE OF WOMEN. All the foregoing maxims have been tested, yet
Qoheleth has not attained wisdom (Ecclesiastes 7:23); the true
inwardness of things, the ultimate reality, is beyond his efforts
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_And I find more bitter than death_ The result is a strange one in its
contrast to the dominant tendency of Hebrew thought; especially we may
add to that thought as represented by the Son of David wit...
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2. Through intensive study, one comes to see the potential within men
and women to do evil. Ecclesiastes 7:25-28
TEXT 7:25-28
25
I directed my mind to know, to investigate, and to seek wisdom and a...
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And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares
and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from
her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
AND I FIND MORE...
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PRACTICAL APHORISMS
1-6. Things useful to remember in life. The writer has just warned as
that we cannot rely on either the present or the future. We can,
however, guide ourselves in the conduct of l...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 7
The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many
special sent...
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Sir. 9:3; Sir. 26:23.
SNARES. — See Ecclesiastes 9:12; used for siege works, Ecclesiastes
9:14.
NETS. — Habakkuk 1:15;...
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וּ מֹוצֶ֨א אֲנִ֜י מַ֣ר מִ מָּ֗וֶת אֶת
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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 now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward
all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least
likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of maxi...
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_Reason. Of all things. In this natural wisdom consists. Septuagint,
"and number." He examined the pretensions of philosophy, which
attempted thus to predict future events; but found that it was all
d...
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Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy
servant curse thee: (22) For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth
that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. (23) All this h...
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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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AND I FIND MORE BITTER THAN DEATH THE WOMAN,.... This was the issue of
his diligent studies and researches, and the observations he had made;
this was what he found by sad and woeful experience, and w...
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And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares
and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape
from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Ver. 26. _An...
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_And I find_ By my own sad experience, which Solomon here records as a
testimony of his true repentance for his foul miscarriages, for which
he was willing to take shame to himself, not only from the...
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and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and
nets, who uses words and glances to inveigle her victims, AND HER
HANDS AS BANDS, since she uses them in voluptuous embraces; WHOS...
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A SPIRIT OF SORROW OVER SIN AND ITS ALLUREMENTS...
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WHO SO PLEASETH GOD:
He that is good before God...
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"AND. DISCOVERED MORE BITTER THAN DEATH THE WOMAN WHOSE HEART IS
SNARES AND NETS, WHOSE HANDS ARE CHAINS. ONE WHO IS PLEASING TO GOD
WILL ESCAPE FROM HER, BUT THE SINNER WILL BE CAPTURED BY HER."
Solo...
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23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things,
had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He
alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape;...
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I FIND, by my own sad experience; which Solomon here records, partly
as an instance of that folly and madness which he expressed in
general, ECCLESIASTES 7:25, and partly as a testimony of his true
re...
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Ecclesiastes 7:26 find H4672 (H8802) bitter H4751 death H4194 woman
H802 heart H3820 snares H4685 nets H2764
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HIS SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING RESULTING FROM HIS WISDOM HAS MADE HIM
AWARE OF MAN'S SINFULNESS AND FOLLY (ECCLESIASTES 7:23).
Ecclesiastes 7:23
‘All this I have tested out in wisdom. I said, “I will b...
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CHAPTER 7 IT IS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF DEATH, TO LISTEN TO REBUKE, TO
BEHAVE WISELY, EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THE WORLD IS FULL OF
WICKEDNESS.
The emphasis of the book from now on includes the tho...
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Ecclesiastes 7:19-8
Koheleth seems to have had a suspicion all the time that his view of
life was a low one. He intimates that he had tried for a better, but
failed to reach it: "I said, I will be wis...
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Ecclesiastes 7 and ECCLESIASTES 8:1
I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but
most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities
He has given us and the opp...
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CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the
vanity and vexation of the world.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the
v...
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Ecclesiastes 7:1. _A good name is better than precious ointment._
Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of
bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48. Wisdom and virtue outlive t...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 7:25 The Heart of the Problem:
Sin. The Preacher has made numerous references to human sinfulness.
This short section helps to explain how this sorry condition came
a...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 7:27. COUNTING ONE BY ONE, TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT]
Collecting the results of many observations—thus forming an opinion
carefully and slowly.
ECCLESIASTES 7:29. MANY INV...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 7:1
Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED
EXPERIENCES IN THE
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Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning
with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again,
it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...
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Ecclesiastes 2:26; Judges 16:18; Proverbs 2:18; Proverbs 2:19;...
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I find — By my own sad experience. Shall escape — Shall be
prevented from falling into her hands....