Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast thy bread upon the (a) waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
(a) That is, be liberal to the poor, and though it seems to be as a thing ventured on the sea, yet it will bring you profit.
Cast thy bread upon the (a) waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
(a) That is, be liberal to the poor, and though it seems to be as a thing ventured on the sea, yet it will bring you profit.
CHAPTER XI _Give alms to all_, 1-4. _The works of God unknown to man_, 5. _Diligence necessary_, 6. _Prosperity frequently succeeded by adversity_, 7, 8. _There will be a day of judgment_, 9, 10....
The verse means: “Show hospitality, even though the corresponding return of hospitality to you may seem improbable; nevertheless, be hospitable in faith.” Compare Luke 14:13; Hebrews 13:2. Some interp...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Proverbs concerning man's work(Ecclesiastes 11:1)_ 2. The vanity of life (Ecclesiastes 11:7) Ecclesiastes 11:1. These continued proverbs concern the work of m
ECCLESIASTES 11:1 TO ECCLESIASTES 12:8. CLOSING COUNSELS. It is well to do and to get all one can, in the way of industry and pleasure, before old age draws on. Ecclesiastes 11:1 and...
BREAD. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, for the seed from which it is produced. UPON. upon the surface of. IT. the profit or result of it....
_Cast thy bread upon the waters_ The book, as it draws nearer to its close, becomes more and more enigmatic, and each single verse is as a parable and dark saying. It is not to be wondered at, in such...
DISCOURSE: 844 LIBERALITY ENCOURAGED Ecclesiastes 11:1. _Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days_. WHILST, in the purity of its precepts, the inspired volume exceeds al...
CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS— _Cast thy corn before the waters, for thou shalt find it,_ &c. Desvoex observes, the true design of this verse is so plainly pointed out by the context, that interprete...
F. EXHORTATIONS TO WORK IN HARMONY WITH Wisdom 11:112:8 1. Trust God and be cheerful in all of your activities. Ecclesiastes 11:1-8 TEXT 11:1-8 1 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for...
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. BREAD - bread-corn. As in the Lord's prayer, all things needful for the body and soul. Solomon reverts to the sentiment in ....
CAST THY BREAD, etc.] show kindness, even where a return is least to be expected. A blessing in some sort, although it may be long delayed, will result. There is perhaps a reference to the sowing of s...
LIFE AFTER ALL IS WORTH LIVING 1-3. Fulfil the duty of beneficence, knowing that results are in the hands of God....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 11 THE KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN BEINGS HAS LIMITS – ECCLESIASTES 11:1-6 V1 Throw your bre...
XI. (1) In this section the preacher is drawing to a close, and he brings out practical lessons very different from those which views of life like his have suggested to others. From the uncertainty of...
שַׁלַּ֥ח לַחְמְךָ֖ עַל ־פְּנֵ֣י הַ מָּ֑יִם כּ
BUT IN A WISE USE AND A WISE ENJOYMENT OF THE PRESENT LIFE, Ecclesiastes 11:1 What that Good is, and where it may be found, the Preacher now proceeds to show. But, as his manner is, he does not say i...
FOURTH SECTION The Quest Achieved. The Chief Good Is To Be Found, Not In Wisdom, Nor In Pleasure, Nor In Devotion To Affairs And Its Rewards; But In A Wise Use And A Wise Enjoyment Of The Present Li...
LIVE NOT FOR TODAY ALONE Ecclesiastes 11:1-10 The casting of bread upon the waters is an allusion to the oriental custom of casting rice-grains on the fields, when they lie submerged beneath the annu...
The method of worldly wisdom is not that of discretion only; it is, moreover, that of diligence, and this passage urges such diligence. Again, we have taken more than one text out of this passage to p...
_Waters. Sow thy seed where it may produce a good crop. (Calmet) --- Be charitable to all, Luke vi. 30. Indiscrete faciendum bene. (St. Jerome) --- Assist those in distress, (Calmet) even though they...
CONTENTS The Preacher, now drawing, nigh to the close of his sermon; is here laying down certain rules for the regulation of the conduct, which under grace, may tend to lessen human vanity, and softe...
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. (2) Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. The opening of this Chap...
_UNPROMISING WORK_ ‘Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.’ Ecclesiastes 11:1 I. THE TEXT TEACHES THE LESSON OF OBEDIENCE TO PRESENT DUTY AND OF PATIENCE AS TO THE...
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...
CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS,.... As the wise man had often suggested that nothing was better for a man than to enjoy the good of his labour himself, he here advises to let others, the poor, have a...
_Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days._ Ver. 1. _Cast thy bread._] Thine own well gotten goods. Alms must not be given, said a martyr, _a_ until it have sweat in a m...
_Cast thy bread_ That is, thy seed, which is here called bread, as it is also Job 28:5, and Isaiah 28:28, because the produce of it makes bread, and the husbandman could ill spare it, wanting it, perh...
PRACTICING BENEVOLENCE...
Cast thy bread upon the waters, in practicing benevolence freely, without the hope of profit or immediate return, Matthew 5:46; Luke 6:35; FOR THOU SHALT FIND IT AFTER MANY DAYS, God will return a ric...
UPON THE WATERS: _ Heb._ upon the face of the waters...
"CAST YOUR BREAD ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATERS, FOR YOU WILL FIND IT AFTER MANY DAYS."CAST" -"send forth, send away, let go" (TWOT p. 927). The bread in the East is made in the form of thin cakes, whic...
1-6 Solomon presses the rich to do good to others. Give freely, though it may seem thrown away and lost. Give to many. Excuse not thyself with the good thou hast done, from the good thou hast further...
ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 11 Liberality to the poor commanded. We know not what we may come to: God giveth rain plentifully; and our time of doing good is short: not too much regarding difficulties: the pr...
Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast H7971 (H8761) bread H3899 upon H6440 waters H4325 find H4672 (H8799) many H7230 day
CHAPTER S ECCLESIASTES 11:9 TO ECCLESIASTES 12:14 THE VENTURING OF THE YOUNG, THE TRIALS OF THE OLD AND MAN'S FINAL DESTINY. As we come to the end of the writer's musings we are rewarded with the fina...
CHAPTER ECCLESIASTES 11:1 ADVICE FROM THE WISE MAN TO THE WISE. Central to these verses is the recognition of our ignorance. We do not know what will happen when we do things, we do not know what God...
Ecclesiastes 8:16-12 I. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his last course. (1) His first conclusion is that wisdom, which of all temp...
Ecclesiastes 11:1 This text is generally regarded as an exhortation to charity, in that restricted sense of the word in which it is equivalent to almsgiving. But it is plainly capable of a far wider...
Ecclesiastes 11:1. _Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days._ Hoard not thy bread; for if thou dost, it will mildew, it will be of no use to thee. Cast it on the waters...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to works of charity and right living. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: Since we have death and judgment to prepare for, we should do good to others and abound in liberalit...
Ecclesiastes 11:1. _Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days._ The root לחם _lechem,_ designates bread, corn, and all kinds of meat which sustain life. It refers also to...
_Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days._ CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS This saying takes us to the banks of the Nile, where, every year, as the flood subsided, while...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 11:1 CAST YOUR BREAD UPON THE WATERS is a difficult expression. Various scholars have suggested it could refer to (1) maritime commerce; (2) diversifying one’s financ...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 11:1. CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS.] “Bread,” rendered in Isaiah 28:28, “bread corn.” It has been supposed that there is an allusion to the manner of sowing the seed-co...
EXPOSITION Approaching the end of his treatise, Koheleth, in view of apparent anomalies in God's moral government, and the difficulties that meet man in his social and political relations, proceeds t...
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you don't know what evil shall be upon the eaRuth (Ecclesiastes 11:1-2). You do...
2 Corinthians 9:6; Deuteronomy 15:10; Deuteronomy 15:7; Ecclesiastes 11:6;...
The waters — Freely and liberally bestow it upon the waters; upon those poor creatures, on whom it may seem to be as utterly lost, as the seed which a man casts into the sea or river. Find it — It sha...