전도서 4:2-3 KRV

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:1-3

Injustice in the world (3:16-4:3)Having acknowledged God’s order in human events, the writer now observes that the ‘order’ is, at times, not very orderly. For example, injustice abounds (16). Maybe, thinks the writer, God will put everything right in a judgment day in the afterlife (17). On the other hand, thinks he, there may not be an afterlife. He observes that people die the same as animals, as if God is trying to show that they are no different from the beasts. Also, he asks, can it be... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ecclesiastes 4:2

praised = commended, or pronounced happy. Hebrew. sliabach, used only by David and Solomon. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ecclesiastes 4:3

better. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:24 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:3

Ecclesiastes 4:3. Yea, better is he than both they— Nay, I say, he is happier than either, who is not yet come to life, who hath not seen the misery that prevaileth under the sun. Desvoeux. Ecclesiastes 4:4. Again, I considered all travail— I observed again all the labour, nay, all the most successful work, that for this, &c. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:2

2. A profane sentiment if severed from its connection; but just in its bearing on Solomon's scope. If religion were not taken into account (Ecclesiastes 3:17; Ecclesiastes 3:19), to die as soon as possible would be desirable, so as not to suffer or witness "oppressions"; and still more so, not to be born at all (Ecclesiastes 3:19- :). Job (Job 3:12; Job 21:7), David (Psalms 73:3, c.), Jeremiah (Jeremiah 12:1), Habakkuk (Jeremiah 12:1- :), all passed through the same perplexity, until they went... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:3

3. not seen—nor experienced. read more

Thomas Constable

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