전도서 4:13-6:12 KRV

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:13

DANGERS OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND ISOLATION"Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more. For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom, he was born poor. I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second that stood up in his stead. There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:13

Ecclesiastes 4:13. Better is a poor and a wise child, &c.— Better is the experienced and wise son, than the old, &c. Desvoeux; who has shewn, that the word מסכן misken, from the root סכן saken, properly signifies experienced; and by this interpretation the passage appears with new beauties; for what can be more striking than the title which the wise son, the young prince here spoken of, has to the preference given him above his father, when he is represented as possessed in his youth of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:13

13. The "threefold cord" [Ecclesiastes 4:12] of social ties suggests the subject of civil government. In this case too, he concludes that kingly power confers no lasting happiness. The "wise" child, though a supposed case of Solomon, answers, in the event foreseen by the Holy Ghost, to Jeroboam, then a poor but valiant youth, once a "servant" of Solomon, and (Ecclesiastes 4:12- :) appointed by God through the prophet Ahijah to be heir of the kingdom of the ten tribes about to be rent from... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 4:4-16

3. The motivations of labor 4:4-16The phrase "vanity and striving after wind" (Ecclesiastes 4:4; Ecclesiastes 4:16) brackets this section. This structure emphasizes the relative vapidity of everything between these statements. The main theme seems to be "the power complex common among humans and ways of reacting to it." [Note: J. S. Wright, "Ecclesiastes," p. 1165.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 4:13-16

Position and prestige 4:13-16It is also futile to work to gain advancement and popularity, thinking that these advantages will provide ultimate satisfaction."He has reached a pinnacle of human glory, only to be stranded there." [Note: Ibid., p. 52.] Ecclesiastes 4:14 evidently describes the poor lad in Ecclesiastes 4:13, rather than the king. The second lad of Ecclesiastes 4:15 is the same boy who replaced the former old king. What is in view is a succession of kings, none of whom fully... 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 4:13

(13) The section commencing here presents great difficulties of interpretation, in overcoming which we have little help from the context, on account of the abruptness with which, in this verse, a new subject is introduced.Poor.—The word occurs again in this book (Ecclesiastes 9:15-16), but not elsewhere in the Old Testament: kindred words occur in Deuteronomy 8:9; Isaiah 40:20. No confidence can be placed in the attempts made to find a definite historical reference in this verse and the next. 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 4:1-16

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

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:9-16

Practical Maxims deduced from this View of the Business life.(b) A noble philosophy this, and pregnant with practical counsels of great value. For if, as we close our study of this Section of the Book, we ask, "What good advice does the Preacher offer that we can take and act upon?" we shall find that he gives us at least three serviceable maxims.A Maxim on Cooperation. Ecclesiastes 4:9-16To all men of business conscious of their special dangers and anxious to avoid them, he says, first:... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:13

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:13

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:13

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 4:4-16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 4:13-16

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ecclesiastes 4:13

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

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

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:9-16

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