Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better [is] the (f) end of a thing than its beginning: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.
(f) He notes their lightness who attempt a thing and suddenly leave it off again.
Better [is] the (f) end of a thing than its beginning: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.
(f) He notes their lightness who attempt a thing and suddenly leave it off again.
Verse Ecclesiastes 7:8. _BETTER_ IS _THE END_] We can then judge of the whole, and especially if the matter relate to the conduct of Divine Providence. At the beginning we are often apt to make very...
BETTER - Inasmuch as something certain is attained, man contemplates the end throughout an entire course of action, and does not rest upon the beginning. PATIENT ... PROUD - literally, “Long,” long-s...
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...
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...
_Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof_ As in ch. Ecclesiastes 6:11, the noun translated "thing" may mean "word" and this gives a preferable meaning. It cannot be said of everything,...
AND THE PATIENT IN SPIRIT IS BETTER THAN THE PROUD IN SPIRIT— _Better is he who considereth long, than he whose spirit is high._ We have, in this and the preceding verses, the first proof of the third...
f. Patience is better than anxiety. Ecclesiastes 7:8-9 TEXT 7:8-9 8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning; patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit. 9 Do not be eager in...
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. BETTER (IS) THE END OF A THING - connected with . Let the "wise" wait for "the e...
BETTER _is_ THE END] The connexion seems to be this: the danger of being warped in our view by outward circumstances is such a real one that we cannot pronounce an unqualified judgment upon anything t...
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...
THING. — Here, as in Ecclesiastes 6:11 and elsewhere, we may also translate “word.” Possibly the thought still is the advantage of bearing patiently “the rebuke of the wise.”...
טֹ֛וב אַחֲרִ֥ית דָּבָ֖ר מֵֽ רֵאשִׁיתֹ֑ו טֹ֥וב...
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...
_Oppression. Literally, "calumny." The most perfect can hardly bear it. Hebrew, "oppression (or calumny of others. Calmet) will make the wise insane, and a present will ruin the heart." (Montanus) ---...
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. (8) Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. (9)...
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...
BETTER [IS] THE END OF A THING THAN THE BEGINNING THEREOF,.... If the thing is good, other ways the end of it is worse; as the end of wickedness and wicked men, whose beginning is sweet, but the end b...
Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit. Ver. 8. _Better is the end of a thing than the beginning._] No right judgm...
_Better is the end of a thing than the beginning_ The good or evil of things is better known by their end than by their beginning; which is true, not only respecting evil counsels and practices, which...
Better is the end of a thing, when a person knows just how he will succeed or has succeeded, THAN THE BEGINNING THEREOF, when one does not yet know how an affair will turn out; AND THE PATIENT IN SPIR...
CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD AND THE SPIRIT OF CALM RESIGNATION...
"THE END OF. MATTER IS BETTER THAN ITS BEGINNING; PATIENCE OF SPIRIT IS BETTER THAN HAUGHTINESS OF SPIRIT."END OF. MATTER" -a specific example of this is found in Ecclesiastes 7:1. "The end is better...
7-10 The event of our trials and difficulties is often better than at first we thought. Surely it is better to be patient in spirit, than to be proud and hasty. Be not soon angry, nor quick in resent...
If this verse relates to that next foregoing, it is an argument to keep men's minds from being disordered, either by oppression or bribery, because the end of those practices will show, that he who op...
Ecclesiastes 7:8 end H319 thing H1697 better H2896 beginning H7225 patient H750 spirit H7307 better H2896 proud H13
IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE THOUGHTFUL. IF A MAN IS NOT CAREFUL THERE ARE THINGS THAT CAN MAKE HIM BEHAVE FOOLISHLY (ECCLESIASTES 7:5). Further wise sayings about our approach to life. The sensible man is e...
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 7:8 The text expresses the general principle or doctrine that by the condition of our existence here, if things go right, a conclusion is better than a beginning. It is on the condition o...
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...
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...
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...
_Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof._ THE NEW YEAR The text expresses the general principle or doctrine, that by the condition of our existence here, if things go right, a conclu...
THE END THAT COUNTS Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Ecclesiastes 7:8. I once lived in the same house with a little girl who was very clever with her hands. She could sew, sh...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:11. WISDOM IS GOOD WITH AN INHERITANCE] Wisdom, though good in itself, yet when joined with ample means imparts a power of doing good to others. ECCLESIASTES 7:12. WIS...
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...
1 Peter 1:13; 1 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 2:21; 1 Peter 5:5; 1 Peter 5:6;...
The end — The good or evil of things is better known by their end, than by their beginning. The patient — Who quietly waits for the issue of things. The proud — Which he puts instead of hasty or impat...