Verse Ecclesiastes 9:9. Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest] Marry prudently, keep faithfully attached to the wife thou hast chosen, and rejoice in the labour of thy hands.
Some understand this as the words of the libertine objector: "Live joyfully with the woman whom thou lovest best." But this does not comport so well with the scope of the place.
Read these six verses connectedly, in order to arrive at the meaning of the writer; and compare Ecclesiastes 2:1. After the description Ecclesiastes 9:5 of the portionless condition of the dead, the n...
CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The common fate (Ecclesiastes 9:1)_ 2. Make the best of life (Ecclesiastes 9:7) 3. The great uncertainty (Ecclesiastes 9:11)...
ECCLESIASTES 8:16 TO ECCLESIASTES 9:16. LIFE'S RIDDLE BAFFLES THE WISEST QUEST. The parenthesis in Ecclesiastes 8:16_ b_ describes the ceaseless effort of the keen student of life, or perhaps the fate
LABOUR... TAKEST. toil... toilest....
_Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest_ The absence of the article from the Hebrew noun for "woman" has been wrongly pressed by interpreters who see in the DEBATER the advocate of sensuality, a...
FOR THAT IS THY PORTION— _For she is thy portion,_ &c. From the 7th to this verse we have the _first inference._ We must not reject the use of what God has given us for our portion in this world. The...
4. Work regardless of the similar fate of the godly and the ungodly. Ecclesiastes 9:1-10 TEXT 9:1-10 1 For I have taken all this to my heart and explain it that righteous men, wise men, and their d...
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in t...
9:9 Enjoy (b-1) Lit. 'see.' which (c-18) Or 'whom.'...
LIVE WORTHILY WHILE YOU MAY 1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 9 EVERYONE MUST DIE AT SOME TIME – ECCLESIASTES 9:1-10...
רְאֵ֨ה חַיִּ֜ים עִם ־אִשָּׁ֣ה אֲשֶׁר ־אָהַ֗בְתָּ...
THE CHIEF GOOD NOT TO BE FOUND IN WISDOM: Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 9:1 1. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his final course...
NOR IN PLEASURE: Ecclesiastes 9:7 Imagine, then, a Jew brought to the bitter pass which Coheleth has described. He has acquainted himself with wisdom, native and foreign; and wisdom has led him to co...
In view of the evidences of the truth of the affirmation, "vanity... all is vanity," the preacher now turns to its effect on the mind of the man living "under the sun." He extols this worldly wisdom,...
_Wife. Some translate, "the woman," or harlot; as if the wicked still spoke._...
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. (9) Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, al...
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...
LIVE JOYFULLY WITH THE WIFE WHOM THOU LOVEST,.... Or "see", or "enjoy life" d: this is one of the ways of enjoying life comfortably, and one of the principal ones; that if a man has a wife whom he oug...
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and i...
_Go thy way_ Make this use of what I have said. _Eat thy bread_ Thy necessary and convenient food; _with joy_, &c. Cheerfully enjoy thy comforts, avoiding all distracting care and grief for the occurr...
CONCERNING HUMAN DESTINY...
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, the lawfully wedded spouse, ALL THE DAYS OF THE LIFE OF THY VANITY, WHICH HE HATH GIVEN THEE UNDER THE SUN, ALL THE DAYS OF THY VANITY, Proverbs 5:15; Pro...
LIVE JOYFULLY: _ Heb._ see, or enjoy life...
"ENJOY LIFE WITH THE WOMAN WHOM YOU LOVE ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR FLEETING LIFE WHICH HE HAS GIVEN TO YOU UNDER THE SUN; FOR THIS IS YOUR REWARD IN LIFE, AND IN YOUR TOIL IN WHICH YOU HAVE LABORED UNDER T...
4-10 The most despicable living man's state, is preferable to that of the most noble who have died impenitent. Solomon exhorts the wise and pious to cheerful confidence in God, whatever their conditi...
LIVE JOYFULLY WITH THE WIFE WHOM THOU LOVEST; so he limits him to lawful delights; whereby it is evident that Solomon doth not speak this in the person of an epicure, as some understand it. OF THE LIF...
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live H2416 joyfully H7200 (H8798) wife H802 love H157 (H8804) days H3117 vain H1892 life...
THE RIGHTEOUS MUST THEREFORE FIND JOY IN THEIR PRESENT LIFE FOR THERE IS NONE BEYOND THE GRAVE (ECCLESIASTES 9:7). The Preacher is still considering the facts on which he is to make his final decision...
CHAPTER 9 THE SAME THINGS HAPPEN TO ALL WHETHER THEY BE RIGHTEOUS, WISE OR SONS OF MEN. AND IN THE END ALL DIE IN THE SAME WAY. SO LET THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE LIFE AS THEY MAY AND ENJOY IT FOR GOD HAS ACCE...
Ecclesiastes 8:16-10 I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth points out that it is impossible for us to construct a satisfactory policy of life. "The work of God," or, as...
CONTENTS: The universality of death and the need of minding the business of life and using wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: While there is life there is opportunity of preparing for dea...
Ecclesiastes 9:5. _The dead know not any thing._ This is explained by the next phrase, _the memory of them is forgotten._ Elijah went up to heaven, or paradise, as the Jews will have it. John 3:13. Si...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 9:7 When godly people find enjoyment in life, they know that it is due to God’s “approval” or “favor” (v. Ecclesiastes 9:7; compare...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 9:8. LET THY GARMENTS BE ALWAYS WHITE; AND LET THY HEAD LACK NO OINTMENT] No literal observance of these circumstances of external appearance is intended; but rather an...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 9:1 One fate happens to all, and the dead are cut off from all the feelings and interests of life in the upper world. ECCLESIASTES 9:1 This continues the subject treated abo...
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them...
Ecclesiastes 2:10; Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:13; Ecclesiastes 3:22;...
Vanity — Of this vain and frail life....