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Connect these verses with Ecclesiastes 6:2 : “All labor is
undertaken with a view to some profit, but as a rule the people who
labor are never satisfied. What advantage then has he who labors if
(bein...
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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
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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...
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LABOUR. toil.
THE APPETITE. the soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._...
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_All the labour of man is for his mouth i.e._for self-preservation and
enjoyment. That is assumed to be the universal aim, and yet even that
is not satisfied. The "appetite," literally _soul_(not the...
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3. Reasons why riches cannot satisfy Ecclesiastes 6:7-9
TEXT 6:7-9
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All a man's labor is for his mouth and yet his appetite is not
satisfied.
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For what advantage does the wise man have over the...
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All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not
filled.
ALL THE LABOUR OF MAN (IS) FOR HIS MOUTH - rather, 'of the man,'
namely, the miser (Ecclesiastes 6:3). For not all men la...
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6:7 appetite (f-13) Lit. 'soul.'...
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LIFE AN ENIGMA
1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
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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...
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כָּל ־עֲמַ֥ל הָ אָדָ֖ם לְ פִ֑יהוּ וְ
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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 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...
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All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the (e) appetite is
not filled.
(e) His desire and affection....
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_Mouth. We are always providing food. (St. Jerome) --- The rich are
wholly bent on pleasure; or the poor cannot get a sufficiency._...
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All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not
filled. (8) For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the
poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? (9) Better is the...
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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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ALL THE LABOUR OF MAN [IS] FOR HIS MOUTH,.... For the food of his
mouth, as the Targum; for the sustenance of his body, for food and
clothing, part being put for the whole: all that a man labours for...
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All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not
filled.
Ver. 7. _All the labour of man is for his mouth._] That is, For food
and raiment, _as _ 1Ti 6:8 a little whereof will con...
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_All the labour of man is for his mouth_ For meat and other necessary
provisions of this life; _and yet the appetite is not filled_ Although
all that a man can obtain by his labours is but a provision...
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All the labor of man is for his mouth, his chief concern in this life
being the satisfaction of his hunger and of the sensual enjoyment of
food, AND YET THE APPETITE IS NOT FILLED, the soul is not sat...
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OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES....
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APPETITE:
_ Heb._ soul...
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"ALL. MAN'S LABOR IS FOR HIS MOUTH AND YET THE APPETITE IS NOT
SATISFIED"."IS FOR HIS MOUTH" -for self-preservation and enjoyment.
"The first of them (7) makes. point which is as real to modern man on...
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7-12 A little will serve to sustain us comfortably, and a great deal
can do no more. The desires of the soul find nothing in the wealth of
the world to give satisfaction. The poor man has comfort as...
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FOR HIS MOUTH; for meat to put into his mouth, that he may get food;
and as bread is oft put for all food, so food is put for all necessary
provisions for this life, as PROVERBS 30:8, and elsewhere; w...
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Ecclesiastes 6:7 labor H5999 man H120 mouth H6310 soul H5315 satisfied
H4390 (H8735)
the labour -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Timothy 6:6; Ecclesiastes 5:10; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Genesis 3:17;...
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Is — For meat. And yet — Men are insatiable in their desires, and
restless in their endeavours after more, and never say, they have
enough....