Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many (t) devices.
(t) And so are cause for their own destruction.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many (t) devices.
(t) And so are cause for their own destruction.
Verse Ecclesiastes 7:29. _LO, THIS ONLY HAVE I FOUND, THAT GOD HATH MADE MAN_ _UPRIGHT_] Whatever evil may be now found among men and women, it is not of God; for God made them all upright. This is a...
GOD HATH MADE - Rather, God made. A definite allusion to the original state of man: in which he was exempt from vanity....
PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12 1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_ 2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15) 3. The strength...
IN DISPRAISE OF WOMEN. All the foregoing maxims have been tested, yet Qoheleth has not attained wisdom (Ecclesiastes 7:23); the true inwardness of things, the ultimate reality, is beyond his efforts ...
PROVERBS AND REFLECTIONS. After asking, What is good for man in life? (Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisab...
LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. Same as "Behold" in Ecclesiastes 7:27. THEY. mankind: not merely the above classes. This verse is admittedly the inspired truth of God: so therefore are the...
_They have sought out many inventions_ The Hebrew word implies an ingenuity exercised mainly for evil but takes within its range, as in 2 Chronicles 26:15, the varied acts of life which are in themsel...
DISCOURSE: 837 MAN’S ORIGINAL AND PRESENT STATE Ecclesiastes 7:29. _Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions_. THE whole scope of this book...
3. A final observation: Men seek evil devices. Ecclesiastes 7:29 TEXT 7:29 29 Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices. THOUGHT QUESTIONS 7:...
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Summary of his investigations. THEY HAVE SOUGHT OUT MANY INVENTIONS. Theoretical "inventions...
MANY INVENTIONS] From the Fall in Eden there has been a continued display of manifold ingenuity to thwart God's benevolent purposes for man....
PRACTICAL APHORISMS 1-6. Things useful to remember in life. The writer has just warned as that we cannot rely on either the present or the future. We can, however, guide ourselves in the conduct of l...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many special sent...
לְ בַד֙ רְאֵה ־זֶ֣ה מָצָ֔אתִי אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֧ה
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 now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of maxi...
_Man. The superior part of the soul rarely thinks of good; but the sensual part always inclines to evil. (Worthington) --- Solomon found danger from all women, (St. Jerome) and there is none who may n...
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: (22) For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. (23) All this h...
REFLECTIONS My soul! ponder well the many blessed truths contained in this Chapter, that thou mayest understand aright the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. Suspect thyself, and thine own hea...
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...
LO, THIS ONLY HAVE I FOUND, THAT GOD HATH MADE MAN UPRIGHT,.... The first man Adam, as the Targum and Jarchi interpret it; and not Adam only, but Eve also with him; for these were both made by the Lor...
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Ver. 29. _That God hath made man upright,_] viz., In his own image - _i.e., _ " knowledge" in his...
_Lo, this only have I found_ Though I could not find out all the streams of wickedness, and their infinite windings and turnings, yet I have discovered the fountain of it, original sin, and the corrup...
A SPIRIT OF SORROW OVER SIN AND ITS ALLUREMENTS...
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, good, in perfect righteousness and holiness, Genesis 1:26; Genesis 5:1; BUT THEY HAVE SOUGHT OUT MANY INVENTIONS, their nature has been corr...
"BEHOLD,. HAVE FOUND ONLY THIS, THAT GOD MADE MEN UPRIGHT, BUT THEY HAVE SOUGHT OUT MANY DEVICES."GOD MADE MEN UPRIGHT" -i.e. morally good, God created men and women in His own image (Genesis 1:26-27)...
23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things, had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape;...
THIS ONLY HAVE I FOUND; though I could not find out all the streams of wickedness, and their infinite windings and turnings in the world, yet I have discovered the fountain of it, to wit, original sin...
Ecclesiastes 7:29 Truly H7200 (H8798) only H905 found H4672 (H8804) God H430 made H6213 (H8804) man...
HIS SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING RESULTING FROM HIS WISDOM HAS MADE HIM AWARE OF MAN'S SINFULNESS AND FOLLY (ECCLESIASTES 7:23). Ecclesiastes 7:23 ‘All this I have tested out in wisdom. I said, “I will b...
CHAPTER 7 IT IS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF DEATH, TO LISTEN TO REBUKE, TO BEHAVE WISELY, EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THE WORLD IS FULL OF WICKEDNESS. The emphasis of the book from now on includes the tho...
Ecclesiastes 7:29 We may well look back on the garden of Eden as we would on our own childhood. Adam's state in Eden seems to have been like the state of children now: in being simple, inartificial,...
Ecclesiastes 7:19-8 Koheleth seems to have had a suspicion all the time that his view of life was a low one. He intimates that he had tried for a better, but failed to reach it: "I said, I will be wis...
Ecclesiastes 7 and ECCLESIASTES 8:1 I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities He has given us and the opp...
CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the vanity and vexation of the world. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the v...
Ecclesiastes 7:1. _A good name is better than precious ointment._ Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48. Wisdom and virtue outlive t...
_God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions._ MAN IN HIS ORIGINAL AND IN HIS LAPSED STAGE I. God made man upright. Our text, then, teaches us that man was made in a state of...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 7:25 The Heart of the Problem: Sin. The Preacher has made numerous references to human sinfulness. This short section helps to explain how this sorry condition came a...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 7:28 ONE MAN... I FOUND, BUT A WOMAN... I HAVE NOT FOUND. The Preacher is unable to “figure out” human beings. His one firm conclusion is that God made man upright, b...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:27. COUNTING ONE BY ONE, TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT] Collecting the results of many observations—thus forming an opinion carefully and slowly. ECCLESIASTES 7:29. MANY INV...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 7:1 Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED EXPERIENCES IN THE
Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again, it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...
Acts 7:40; Ephesians 2:2; Ephesians 2:3; Ezekiel 22:6; Genesis 1:26;...
Lo, this — Though I could not find out all the streams of wickedness, and their infinite windings and turnings, yet I have discovered the fountain of it, Original sin, and the corruption of nature, wh...