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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 3:1

Ecclesiastes 3:1. To every thing, &c. Solomon having mentioned God’s overruling providence in the latter end of the foregoing chapter, proceeds in this to illustrate the imperfection of human wisdom, which is confined to a certain season for all things that it would effect, which if we neglect, or let slip, all our contrivances signify nothing. He then shows that the utmost perfection at which our wisdom can arrive in this world, consists, 1st, In being contented with this order in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 3:2-8

Ecclesiastes 3:2-8. A time to die And as there is a time to die, so there is a time to rise again, a set time, when they that lie in the grave shall be remembered. A time to kill When men die a violent death. A time to heal When he who seemed to be mortally wounded is healed. A time to weep When men have just occasion for weeping, as they frequently have in the present life, both for their own sins and for the sins and miseries of mankind. “It is in vain,” says Castalio, here, “to... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Events controlled by God’s fixed order (3:1-15)In 1:1-11 the author considered the ceaseless toil and repetition in the natural world and decided that life was useless. Now (ignoring for the moment the conclusions he has just outlined in 2:24-26) he considers the fixed order of events in the world. It appears to him that everything happens at the time God has decided it will happen. In view of this, all human effort to improve life is useless. People can change nothing (3:1-9).Human beings may... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ecclesiastes 3:1

a season = an appointed time. Hebrew. zrman. Compare Ezra 10:14 .Nehemiah 2:6 . Esther 9:27 . A word is not necessarily a "later" word, because there has not been occasion for it to be used, or needed before. See App-76 . a time = a season. Note the 28 "seasons" (= 4x7. See App-10 .) In Hebrew Manuscripts these are set out in 14 lines; 2 in a line, with a space between each pair. purpose. Hebrew. hephez. Alleged to be later Hebrew. See App-76 . under the heaven. See note on Ecclesiastes... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ecclesiastes 3:2

to be born = to bear. Genesis 17:17 , Genesis 17:21 ; Genesis 18:14 ; Genesis 21:2 . to die. Psalms 31:5 , Psalms 31:15 .Hebrews 9:27 . to plant (Compare Ecclesiastes 2:5 ): it is beyond man's power to alter the seasons. Applied to a kingdom. Psalms 44:2 ; Psalms 80:8 , Psalms 80:12 , Psalms 80:13 .Jeremiah 18:9 . Amos 9:15 . to pluck up, &c. Jeremiah 18:7 , Jeremiah 18:9 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1

MORE SUPPORT FOR SOLOMON'S THEORY OF THE FUTILITY AND VANITY OF LIFEEcclesiastes 3:1-15"For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1

Ecclesiastes 3:1. To every thing there is a season— There is a fixed season for every thing; nay, all the determinations of man's will under heaven have their proper time. Solomon says of all things in general, that they have an appointed season; or, according to the propriety of the word זמן zeman, a prepared time. This construction of the passage is strongly confirmed by the contents of the annexed list; for, except the first head, namely, the time of our birth and death, every article... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1

1. Man has his appointed cycle of seasons and vicissitudes, as the sun, wind, and water ( :-). purpose—as there is a fixed "season" in God's "purposes" (for example, He has fixed the "time" when man is "to be born," and "to die," Ecclesiastes 3:2), so there is a lawful "time" for man to carry out his "purposes" and inclinations. God does not condemn, but approves of, the use of earthly blessings (Ecclesiastes 3:2- :); it is the abuse that He condemns, the making them the chief end (1... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:2

2. time to die— (Psalms 31:15; Hebrews 9:27). plant—A man can no more reverse the times and order of "planting," and of "digging up," and transplanting, than he can alter the times fixed for his "birth" and "death." To try to "plant" out of season is vanity, however good in season; so to make earthly things the chief end is vanity, however good they be in order and season. GILL takes it, not so well, figuratively (Jeremiah 18:7; Jeremiah 18:9; Amos 9:15; Matthew 15:13). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 3:1-3

2. Labor and divine providence 3:1-4:3In this section, Solomon expressed his conviction that in view of God’s incomprehensible workings, all human toil is without permanent profit. read more