Ecclesiastes 6:1, Ecclesiastes 6:2 NLT

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 6:1-9

4. The perishable fruits of labor 5:1-6:9This section emphasizes the folly of trying to find ultimate satisfaction in one’s work. Solomon focused on a variety of situations that involve the fruits of labor: money and what it can buy, fame, and pleasure. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

Life an Enigma1-6. Riches will not secure happiness.1. Common among] RV ’heavy upon.’2. A stranger] because he has no child to whom to leave it. The Easterns have a dread of being without a child, to keep the parents’ name in remembrance: cp. Genesis 15:2. 3. And his soul] RV ’But his soul.’ Misfortunes may render him miserable, though he has abundance of children and of years of life. Examples are Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 11:21) and Ahab (2 Kings 10:1). That he have no burial] The greatest... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ecclesiastes 6:1

VI.(1) Common among.—Rather, heavy upon. In this section it is remarked how even when riches remain with a man to the end of his life they may fail to bring him any real happiness. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

Ecclesiastes 6:9 Perhaps the inherent force of a nature is shown even more in its passive and negative than in its active and positive self-expressions. In its power of voluntarily limiting its own horizon; of setting itself arbitrary boundaries; of saying 'Thus far will I go, see, admit, and no further'. For it takes a lot of latent strength to sit, either mentally or physically, really still. Not to fidget. To 'stay put,' in short. Lucas Malet's Wages of Sin, book iv. v. Not until a man has... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

The Quest in Wealth. Ecclesiastes 6:1-12His discussion of the first of these questions, although very matterful, is comparatively brief; in part, perhaps, because in the previous Section he has already dwelt on many of the drawbacks which accompany wealth; and still more, probably, because, while there are few men in any age to whom great wealth is possible, there would be unusually few in the company of poor men for whose instruction he wrote. Brief and simple as the discussion is, however, we... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

CHAPTER 6 Disheartening Contradictions 1. Riches--Inability to enjoy them (Ecclesiastes 6:1-2 ) 2. Having All--Yet no fill of the soul (Ecclesiastes 6:3-9 ) 3. The sad ending wail (Ecclesiastes 6:10-12 ) Ecclesiastes 6:1-2 . The first evil the wise searcher sees as a discouraging contradiction is, that God giveth a man riches, wealth, and honor so that he does not lack in anything whatever. But God does not give him the power to enjoy it, a stranger instead eats thereof. This makes... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

VARIETIES IN WORSHIP (Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 ) On these verses the writer seems to muse on the relation of the unseen Being to the act of man in worship. Mindful of man’s jaunty liberalism and superstition, rash vows and wordy prayers, dreamy and unreal, because full of intruding vanities and worldly businesses, the preacher earnestly exhorts to few words and solemn steps. But even then it is the natural man only who is speaking in the exhortation, not the regenerate man, because he speaks only... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

The Vanity of Riches Ecclesiastes 6:0 We now come to some rough notes put down hurriedly in Coheleth's memorandum-book. They might be heads of discourses, or words overheard in society, or points set down for discussion; at all events, there is no apparent connection between them, and no literary art in their distribution. We have to deal with separate thoughts rather than with a connected and cumulative argument, and as the expositor is bound by his author we have no option but to look at... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1

CONTENTS The Preacher openeth this Chapter with a strong proof of vanity in one man laying up for another; and the fruit of all his labours enjoyed by a stranger. He shows that the longest life spent in vanity, is spent but in vexation of spirit. And he arrives, at the close of the Chapter, to the same conclusion as before. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1-2

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: (2) A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. I beg the Reader to observe with me, that in the gifts here spoken of, no mention is made of grace. Riches, wealth, and honour; that is, the world's honour, may be given to the most... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 6:1-9

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ecclesiastes 6:1

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Ecclesiastes 6:1-12

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1-2

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