Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ecclesiastes 4:2
Wherefore I praised the (b) dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.
(b) Because they are no longer subject to these oppressions.
Wherefore I praised the (b) dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.
(b) Because they are no longer subject to these oppressions.
Verse Ecclesiastes 4:2. _WHEREFORE I PRAISED THE DEAD_] I considered those happy who had escaped from the pilgrimage of life to the place where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are...
CHAPTER 4 OBSERVATIONS OF DIFFERENT WRONGS _ 1. Concerning oppressions (Ecclesiastes 4:1)_ 2. Concerning envy of fools and the rich (Ecclesiastes 4:4) 3. Concerning the miser (Ecclesiast
ECCLESIASTES 4. A GLOOMY SURVEY. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression (Ecclesiastes 4:1), rivalry (Ecclesiastes 4:4), isolation amounting to self-torture (Ecclesia...
PRAISED. commended, or pronounced happy. Hebrew. _sliabach,_ used only by David and Solomon....
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Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. WHEREFORE I PRAISED THE DEAD WHICH ARE ALREADY DEAD, MORE THAN THE LIVING. A profane sentiment if sever...
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I PRAISED THE DEAD. — Job 3:11; Exodus 32:32; 1 Kings 19:4; Jeremiah 20:14; Jon
וְ שַׁבֵּ֧חַ אֲנִ֛י אֶת ־הַ מֵּתִ֖ים שֶׁ
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AND BY HUMAN INJUSTICE AND PERVERSITY. Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ecclesiastes 4:1 But not only are our endeavours to find the "good" of our labours thwarted by the gracious, inflexible laws of the just God...
From this general survey the preacher returned to examine the condition of the beings whom he had described as being no better than the beasts. He looked out upon them, and saw them in suffering, and...
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Solomon was not singular in this opinion: a voice from heaven proclaimed the same, Revelation 14:13. But,...
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...
WHEREFORE I PRAISED THE DEAD, WHICH ARE ALREADY DEAD,.... Truly and properly so; not in a figurative sense, as dead sinners, men dead in trespasses and sins; nor carnal professors, that have a name to...
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Ver. 2. _Wherefore I praised the dead._] Because they are out of the reach of wrong doers; and if dead in...
_Wherefore I praised the dead_, &c. I judged them less miserable. For this is certain, that setting aside the future life, which Solomon doth not meddle with in the present debate, and considering the...
PERSONAL MISFORTUNES...
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, and thus beyond the reach of tyranny and oppression, MORE THAN THE LIVING WHICH ARE YET ALIVE, and therefore always in danger of becoming victims o...
"SO. CONGRATULATED THE DEAD WHO ARE ALREADY DEAD MORE THAN THE LIVING WHO ARE STILL LIVING....
1-3 It grieved Solomon to see might prevail against right. Wherever we turn, we see melancholy proofs of the wickedness and misery of mankind, who try to create trouble to themselves and to each othe...
I PRAISED; I judged them more happy, or less miserable; which he seems to deliver not only as the judgment of the flesh, or of the sense, or of men in misery, as this is commonly understood, but as hi...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 praised H7623 (H8764) dead H4191 (H8801) already H3528 dead H4191 (H8804) living H2416 still
CHAPTER 4 THE DREADFULNESS OF OPPRESSION. GUIDANCE ON LIVING. This chapter begins with considering the dreadfulness of oppression and then continues with thoughts on living, giving both good and bad...
THE DREADFULNESS OF OPPRESSION (ECCLESIASTES 4:1). Having been faced up to the injustice in the world, and especially the injustice in its courts of justice, the Preacher now turns to consider oppres...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had no voice in making; that we often lie at th...
CONTENTS: Discontent and impatience because of the oppressions and iniquities of life. CHARACTERS: Solomon. CONCLUSION: The world is full of trouble. By reason of man's perversity, he is ever distur...
Ecclesiastes 4:2. _Wherefore I praised the dead more than the living,_ who are robbed, fleeced, and exposed to incessant afflictions, from oppression and war. Solomon alludes to extreme cases, such as...
_Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive._ THE APPLAUSE OF THE DEAD REGULATED, VINDICATED AND IMPROVED Scripture itself sets us an example of app...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 4:2 Some people’s circumstances are so tragic that they welcome death. The Preacher considers those who have not yet lived to be the most fortunate. This is because t...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 4:1. SO I RETURNED.] Passing from the reflections of the last chapter to a new subject of contemplation. _They had no comforter_. The repetition of this phrase is intend...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 4:1 Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of _man_'_s inability to be the architect of his own happiness_._ _There are many things which interrupt or des...
So I returned, and I considered all of the oppressions that are done under the sun: and the tears of those that are oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was...
Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 9:4; Job 3:17...
I praised — I judged them less miserable. For this is certain, that setting aside the future life, which Solomon doth not meddle with in the present debate; and considering the uncertainty, and vanity...