Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ecclesiastes 6:4
For (d) he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
(d) Meaning, the untimely fruit whose life neither profited nor hurt any.
For (d) he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
(d) Meaning, the untimely fruit whose life neither profited nor hurt any.
HE ... HIS - Rather, it ... its. The untimely birth is spoken of....
CHAPTER 6 DISHEARTENING CONTRADICTIONS _ 1. Riches--Inability to enjoy them (Ecclesiastes 6:1)_ 2. Having All--Yet no fill of the soul (Ecclesiastes 6:3) 3. The sad ending wail (Eccle
ECCLESIASTES 6. FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON WEALTH AND FATE. Parallel with the bitter experience of the avaricious man who loses his wealth is that of the rich and successful man whose cherished desires ar...
HE COMETH: i.e. in the untimely birth of Ecclesiastes 6:3....
_he cometh in with vanity_ The pronoun in the English Version refers the clause to the man who has heaped up riches, and had a long life with no real enjoyment. Probably, however, the words describe,...
FOR HE COMETH IN WITH VANITY, &C.— _For it is in vain he came, and he shall depart in darkness._...
2. It is possible to possess riches which cannot be enjoyed. Ecclesiastes 6:1-6 TEXT 6:1-6 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men 2 a man to whom God has...
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. FOR HE - rather, it, the "untimely birth." COMETH IN WITH VANITY - to no purpose; a type of...
HE] RV 'it,' i.e. the untimely birth: so in Ecclesiastes 6:5....
LIFE AN ENIGMA 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 6 A PERSON’S LIFE THAT IS NOT SATISFACTORY – ECCLESIASTES 6:1-6...
HE. — Rather, _it — _viz., the untimely birth....
כִּֽי ־בַ † הֶ֥בֶל בָּ֖א וּ בַ...
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 knows prosperity experimentally far better than poverty. Moreover, by observation he is more familiar with men of wealth than with poor men, and, therefore, he returns to a declaration of...
_He. The infant, though some explain it of the miser. (Calmet)_...
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is...
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...
FOR HE COMETH IN WITH VANITY,.... The Targum adds, "into this world." Some understand this of the abortive, and render it, "though he cometh in with vanity" x, yet is to be preferred to the covetous m...
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Ver. 4. _For he cometh in with vanity, &c._] As nothing, being senseless of good or evil. "And de...
_If a man beget a hundred children_ Very many, to whom he intends to leave his estate; _and live many years_ Which is the chief thing that he desires, and which gives him opportunity of increasing his...
For he cometh in with vanity, naked, poor, into an empty existence, AND DEPARTETH IN DARKNESS, into a future which holds no hope for him, AND HIS NAME SHALL BE COVERED WITH DARKNESS, assigned to utter...
OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES....
"FOR IT COMES IN FUTILITY AND GOES INTO OBSCURITY; AND ITS NAME IS COVERED IN OBSCURITY". The stillborn or miscarriage comes in futility, i.e. comes for no purpose. The miscarriage or stillborn is (st...
1-6 A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no good or comfortable use of what he has. By one means or other...
FOR; or rather, _although_, as this particle is frequently rendered. For this verse seems to contain not so much a reason of what he last said, _that an untimely birth is better than he_, as an answer...
Ecclesiastes 6:4 comes H935 (H8804) vanity H1892 departs H3212 (H8799) darkness H2822 name H8034 covered H3680
LIFE IS NOT ENJOYABLE TO EVEN SOME OF THE RICH (ECCLESIASTES 6:1). Ecclesiastes 6:1 ‘There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavily on men. A man to whom God gives riches, weal...
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...
Ecclesiastes 5:9 ; ECCLESIASTES 6:1 I. In all grades of society human subsistence is very much the same. Even princes are not fed with ambrosia, nor do poets subsist on asphodel. The profit of the ea...
CONTENTS: The vanity of worldly wealth as pertaining only to the body. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: Man deprives himself of the good he might have had of his worldly possessions by not cons...
Ecclesiastes 6:2. _But a stranger eateth it._ The richer families in Israel had often foreign servants, who rose to influence in their master's house. But greater was the affliction from invading armi...
_If a man live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, I say that an untimely birth is better than he._ THE SORROWS OF OLD AGE The wise Preacher supp...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 6:3 Long life and many CHILDREN are among earth’s greatest blessings, but a discontented heart will be unsatisfied even with these....
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 6:1. COMMON AMONG MEN] In the strict meaning of the word, the reference is to the magnitude of the evil, and not to the frequency of it. That which appears to be good is...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 6:1 Section 9. Koheleth proceeds to illustrate the fact which he stated at the end of the last chapter, viz. that the possession and enjoyment of wealth are alike the free gif...
Now there is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it's common among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires (E...
Psalms 109:13...
He — The abortive; of whom alone, that passage is true, hath not seen the sun, Ecclesiastes 6:5. Cometh — Into the world. In vain — To no purpose; without any comfort or benefit by it. Departeth — Wit...