And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the (d) gift of God.
(d) Read (Ecclesiastes 2:24) and these places declare that we should do all things with sobriety and in the fear of God, as he gives not his gifts to the intent that they should be abused.
2. FURTHER RESULTS OF THE SEARCH CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The times of man under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3:1)_ 2. When then is the good? (Ecclesiastes 3:12) 3. Concerning judgment and the future ...
From one point of view this section may be entitled _In Praise of Opportunism,_ from another _Human Helplessness._ Every action in which man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure tha...
_And also that every man_ The addition of this clause confirms the interpretation just given of the "doing good" of the preceding verse. Had that meant simply enjoyment, this clause would have been an...
2. Working outside the framework of God's providence results in frustration and defeat. Ecclesiastes 3:9-22 TEXT 3:9-22 9 What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? 10 I have...
And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. AND ALSO THAT EVERY MAN SHOULD EAT - literally, 'and also as to every man who eats,' etc.,...
3:13 enjoy (c-11) Lit. 'see.'...
THE PRACTICAL IDEAL. ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNIVERSAL SCHEME 1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture, pleasure, are al...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 3 A POEM ABOUT TIME – ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8...
Sir. 11:17; Sir. 18:6....
וְ גַ֤ם כָּל ־הָ אָדָם֙ שֶׁ יֹּאכַ֣ל
SECOND SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20 I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom utters her vo...
THE QUEST OBSTRUCTED BY DIVINE ORDINANCES. Ecclesiastes 3:1 The time of birth, for instance, and the time of death, are ordained by a Power over which men have no control; they begin to be, and they...
The vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of that...
_God. He gives peace and plenty; and still more, the grace to use these things, so as to obtain heaven. (Calmet)_...
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? (10) I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. (11) He hath made everything beautiful in hi...
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...
AND ALSO THAT EVERY MAN SHOULD EAT AND DRINK,.... Not to excess, but in moderation; and yet freely, plentifully, and cheerfully; and not alone, but giving the poor a portion with him; and in all havin...
And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God. Ver. 13. _And enjoy the good of all his labour._] "They that will not labour must not eat,...
_I know_ By clear reason, and my own long and certain experience; _that there is no good in them_ No other satisfaction or felicity that a man can enjoy in creatures or worldly things; _but for a man...
THE NATURE OF HUMAN HAPPINESS...
And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God, and should be acknowledged as such with the proper thanksgiving....
"MOREOVER, THAT EVERY MAN WHO EATS AND DRINKS SEES GOOD IN ALL HIS LABOR-IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD." This is an expression in the book which takes us "above the sun". For the believer, making the most of...
11-15 Every thing is as God made it; not as it appears to us. We have the world so much in our hearts, are so taken up with thoughts and cares of worldly things, that we have neither time nor spirit...
THAT EVERY MAN SHOULD EAT AND DRINK, i.e. hath power or a heart to use what God hath given him, as it is expressed, ECCLESIASTES 6:2. IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD; of which SEE POOLE ON "ECCLESIASTES 2:24"....
Ecclesiastes 3:13 man H120 eat H398 (H8799) drink H8354 (H8804) enjoy H7200 (H8804) good H2896 gift...
GOD HAS GIVEN MAN A CONCEPTION OF EVERLASTINGNESS. Here he provides something extra to what God has given men to do. While man has to work so hard, nevertheless God has made everything beautiful in it...
Ecclesiastes 3:12 Even in the days of his vanity, Solomon saw that there would be more happiness if there were less hankering. Are the cases not numberless where, for all purposes of enjoyment, labou...
Ecclesiastes 1:12-3 Koheleth now mentions the unusual advantages which he had possessed for enjoying life and making the best of it. His opportunities could not have been greater, he considers, had h...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him. "He hath made everything beautiful in its time,...
CONTENTS: The mutability of all human affairs and the unchangeableness and unsearchableness of the divine counsels. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: We live in a world of changes. The events of...
Ecclesiastes 3:1. _To every thing there is a season._ The seasons of the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9., divides the times into twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandm...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:9 Fear God, the Sovereign One. The vanity of life causes the Preacher to reflect on what is permanent and lasting: the sovereign God of the universe....
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:12 Rather than becoming resentful about what God has _not_ granted human beings, one should enjoy the gifts that God _has_ given....
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 3:12. FOR WHO KNOWETH THE SPIRIT OF MAN THAT GOETH UPWARD.] Man has no distinct and certain knowledge of his own future destiny, or of that of other forms of life. The su...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 3:1 Section 4. In confirmation of the truth that man's happiness depends upon the will of God, Koheleth proceeds to show how _Providence arranges even the minutest concerns;...
Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was mono...
Deuteronomy 28:30; Deuteronomy 28:31; Deuteronomy 28:47; Deuteronomy 28:48;...
WHAT IS GOOD IN THIS LIFE Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to the second great question in the Book of Ecclesiastes. It is expressed in Chapter s 6 and 12: "Who kno...
Should eat — Use what God hath given him....