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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 4:1-3

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

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

Vicissitudes of Life. ’Oh, the pity of it!’1-3. The mass of human suffering and the absence of pity are such that better off are the dead and still more the unborn.It is not only through God’s ordinance, but by reason of man’s perversity, that he is disturbed and perplexed by the social disturbances around him. The world is full of trouble. The weak are oppressed by the strong.4-6. Success involves envy. Better be secure and at peace. 4. Right] RV ’skilful,’ RM ’successful.’ For this..... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ecclesiastes 4:2

(2) I praised the dead.—Job 3:11; Exodus 32:32; 1 Kings 19:4; Jeremiah 20:14; Jonah 4:3. The word which is translated “yet” in this verse belongs to later Hebrew, and does not occur elsewhere in the Old Testament, read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

Ecclesiastes 4:1-2 Compare John Morley's Critical Miscellanies, I. pp. 84 f. Reference. IV. 1. A. W. Momerie, Agnosticism, p. 204. Ecclesiastes 4:8 See Quarles's Emblems, II. 2. Ecclesiastes 4:9 'The best things come, as a general thing,' says Mr. Henry James in his Monograph on Hawthorne (p. 81), 'from the talents that are members of a group; every man works better when he has companions working in the same line, and yielding the stimulus of suggestion, comparison, emulation. Great things... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:1-3

22In the Wrongs which He permits Men to inflict upon us; Ecclesiastes 3:16-22; Ecclesiastes 4:1-3Because we will not be obsequious to the ordinances of His wisdom, He permits us to meet a new check in the caprice and injustice of man-making even these to praise Him by subserving our good. If we do not suffer the violent oppressions which drew tears from the Preacher’s fellow captives, we nevertheless stand very much at the mercy of our neighbours in so far as our outward haps are concerned.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

SECOND SECTIONThe Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of BusinessEcclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom utters her voice, nor in the Garden in which Pleasure spreads her lures: may it not be found in the Market, in devotion to Business and Public Affairs? The Preacher will try this experiment also. He gives himself to study and consider it. But at the very outset he discovers that he is in the iron grip of immutable... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

CHAPTER 4 Observations of Different Wrongs 1. Concerning oppressions (Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 ) 2. Concerning envy of fools and the rich (Ecclesiastes 4:4-7 ) 3. Concerning the miser (Ecclesiastes 4:8-12 ) 4. Concerning popularity (Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 ) Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 . He observes that the world is filled with oppressions. This connects with the statement made in the previous chapter, (verse 16). Criticism declares in connection with this passage that it could not have been written by... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:2

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. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

MAN’S TIMES (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 ) These are orderly and seasonable, but bring no permanent profit, because man is still ignorant of God’s purpose in them all. He does not know how to fit his work into God’s work. The conclusion is in Ecclesiastes 3:12-15 . GOD’S TIME (Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 ) There is a suggestion in verse 17 that this is long. It will be a time, too, of judgment and manifestation (Ecclesiastes 3:17-18 ). Yet, and perhaps because of this, man’s death is not different from... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

A Wise Lesson Ecclesiastes 4:0 Cohleleth appears in this, as in other verses, as a sympathetic man. There is the making of a true philosopher in him, in so far as he observes widely and clearly, though he does not always seem to draw the right conclusion from what he sees. It is very beautiful and instructive to notice how broad are his sympathies and how deep is his interest in human life. We seem to determine for ourselves the size of the world in which we live: if we dwell upon our own... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 4:1-3

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ecclesiastes 4:2

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:1-3

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

Geneva Study Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:2

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

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