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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

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

As is customary in Ecclesiastes, the writer began this section by stating a thesis (Ecclesiastes 3:1). He then proceeded to illustrate and to prove it true (Ecclesiastes 3:2-8). "Event" (Ecclesiastes 3:1) means human activity that one engages in by deliberate choice. Each of these events has its proper time and duration."Qohelet now raises a subject characteristic of ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature-the proper time. After all, it is the wise person who knows the right time to say or to do... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

The Practical Ideal. Acceptance of the Universal Scheme1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture, pleasure, are all good, though, even if we combine them, there is still something lacking, and they will not explain the mystery of existence. In continuing to seek for a rule of life that shall lead him to the highest good, he reminds himself that God is a God of order, and wisdom lies in adapting ourselves to... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ecclesiastes 3:2

(2) The list of times and seasons is ranged in Hebrew MSS. and printed books in two parallel columns.A time to die.—Job 14:5. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Ecclesiastes 3:1 How for everything there is a time and a season, and then how does the glory of a thing pass from it, even like the flower of the grass. This is a truism, but it is one of those which are continually forcing themselves upon the mind. Borrow's Lavengro, xxvi. He is a good time-server that finds out the fittest opportunity for every action. God hath made a time for everything under the sun, save only for that which we do at all times to wit, sin. Thomas Fuller. References. III.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

And the Conviction that it is opposed to the Will of God as expressed in the Ordinances of his Providence, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8This is one help to a wise content with our lot; but he has many more at our service, and notably this, -that an undue devotion to the toils of business is contrary to the will, the design, the providence of God. God, he argues, has fixed a time for every undertaking under heaven, and has made each of them beautiful in its season, but only then. By his kindly ordinances... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

The Quest obstructed by Divine Ordinances. Ecclesiastes 3:1-15The time of birth, for instance, and the time of death, are ordained by a Power over which men have no control; they begin to be, and they cease to be, at hours whose stroke they can neither hasten nor retard. The season for sowing and the season for reaping are fixed with any reference to their wish; they must plant and gather in when the unchangeable laws of nature will permit (Ecclesiastes 3:2). Even those violent deaths, and... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

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 3:1-22

2. Further Results of the Search CHAPTER 3 1. The times of man under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 ) 2. When then is the good? (Ecclesiastes 3:12-15 ) 3. Concerning judgment and the future (Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 ) Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 . There is a time for everything. Twenty-eight “times” are mentioned, beginning with the time of birth and ending with the time for peace. Everything has a fixed time: Life-death; seeding-harvesting; killing-healing; breaking-down building-up;... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

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

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ecclesiastes 3:2

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

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