Verse 14. In the day of prosperity be joyful] When ye receive these temporal gifts from God, enjoy them, and be thankful to the Giver: but remember, this sunshine will not always last. God has balanced prosperity and adversity against each other; and were it not so, how many would put the former in the place of God himself!
Good and prosperous days are in God’s design special times of comfort and rejoicing: the days of affliction and trouble, are in God’s design the proper seasons of recollection and serious consideratio...
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...
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 the day of prosperity be joyful_ Literally, IN THE DAY OF GOOD, BE IN GOOD, _i.e._use it as it should be used. True wisdom, the teacher urges, is found in a man's enjoying whatever good actually c...
IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE JOYFUL— _In the day of prosperity enjoy it; but in the day of adversity, consider also that God hath made it in opposition to the other, to the end that man should not find...
j. Trusting God for tomorrow is better than knowing about tomorrow. Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 TEXT 7:13-14 13 Consider the work of God, for who is able to straighten what He has bent? 14 In the day of...
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. IN THE DAY OF PROSPER...
7:14 good, (c-7) Or 'be in prosperity.'...
CONSIDER] Ask yourself what you may learn from it. OVER AGAINST] RV 'side by side with.' Both run through the course of human life. TO THE END, etc.] So that we cannot forecast the part which the one...
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...
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...
Ecclus. 14:14, 33. The first clause may be more closely rendered, “In the good day be of good cheer.” As a consolation in time of adversity the thought Job 2:10 is offered. The last clause connects it...
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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
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...
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity (i) consider: God also hath appointed the one as well as the other, to the end that man should find (k) nothing after him. (i) Consider...
_Despised. God never neglects first. (Council of Trent, Session vi. 11.) --- He detests sin, and at last abandons the obstinate, though he never fails to offer sufficient graces. A person who is of an...
Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. (12) For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth lif...
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...
IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE JOYFUL,.... Or, "in a good day" q. When things go well in the commonwealth, in a man's family, and with himself, health, peace, and plenty, are enjoyed, a man's circumstanc...
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. Ver. 14. _In the day of...
_In the day of prosperity be joyful_ Enjoy God's favours with thankfulness. _In the day of adversity consider_ Namely, God's work, that it is his hand, and therefore submit to it: consider also why he...
In the day of prosperity be joyful, enjoying God's blessings with due thankfulness, BUT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY CONSIDER, regard most carefully, let your thoughts run along these lines; GOD ALSO HATH...
CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD AND THE SPIRIT OF CALM RESIGNATION...
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"IN THE DAY OF PROSPERITY BE HAPPY, BUT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY CONSIDER----GOD HAS MADE THE ONE AS WELL AS THE OTHER SO THAT MAN MAY NOT DISCOVER ANYTHING THAT WILL BE AFTER HIM."BE HAPPY….CONSIDER...
11-22 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yea better. It shelters from the storms and scorching heat of trouble. Wealth will not lengthen out the natural life; but true wisdom will give spiritual li...
BE JOYFUL; enjoy God's favours with cheerfulness and thankfulness. CONSIDER, to wit, God's work, which is easily understood out of the foregoing verse. Consider that it is God's hand, and therefore su...
Ecclesiastes 7:14 day H3117 prosperity H2896 joyful H2896 day H3117 adversity H7451 consider H7200 (H8798) God...
BUT WISDOM INCLUDES A RECOGNITION THAT WE CANNOT INTERFERE WITH GOD'S DOINGS. THUS WE MUST ACCEPT FROM GOD WHAT HE IS PLEASED TO GIVE (ECCLESIASTES 7:13). Ecclesiastes 7:13 ‘Consider the work of God...
THE IMPORTANCE OF PRACTICAL WISDOM (ECCLESIASTES 7:11). Wisdom As A Defence (Ecclesiastes 7:11). Having wisdom is a good foundation for life, for it provides a form of defence in times of trouble, a...
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...
Ecclesiastes 7:14 The wise Preacher is speaking here of the right use of the changeful phenomena and conditions of man's life on earth. God sets prosperity over against adversity, and He does this tha...
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...
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: 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...
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...
_Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight which He hath made crooked?_ THE POWER OF GOD, AND THE DUTY OF MAN I. What we are to understand by “the work of God.” This is an expression o...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:11. WISDOM IS GOOD WITH AN INHERITANCE] Wisdom, though good in itself, yet when joined with ample means imparts a power of doing good to others. ECCLESIASTES 7:12. WIS...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 7:1 Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED EXPERIENCES IN THE
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...
1 Kings 17:17; 1 Kings 17:18; 1 Kings 8:47; 2 Chronicles 33:12;...
Be joyful — Enjoy God's favours with thankfulness. Consider — Consider that it is God's hand, and therefore submit to it: consider also why God sends it, for what sins, and with what design. God also...