伝道者の書 4:2 JCB

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

Ecclesiastes 4:1-5:7 I. In the fourth chapter Koheleth comes to the conclusion that life is essentially and irretrievably wretched wretched not because (as he had formerly thought) it would so soon be over, but wretched because it lasted too long. All that pleasure did for him was thus to increase his gloom. There was one thing he had forgotten in making out his programme: he had forgotten the miseries of other people. The prosperity he secured for himself did not remove their adversity, but... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

Chapter 4So I returned, and I considered all of the oppressions that are done under the sun: and the tears of those that are oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter ( Ecclesiastes 4:1 ).The philosophy, Might is right.Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which were yet alive ( Ecclesiastes 4:2 ).I looked at life and, man, you're better off dead than you are alive. Those that have... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 4:1-16

Ecclesiastes 4:2 . Wherefore I praised the dead more than the living, who are robbed, fleeced, and exposed to incessant afflictions, from oppression and war. Solomon alludes to extreme cases, such as our Saviour foretold would befal the Jews in their revolt against the Romans; when men should say, Blessed are the breasts that never gave suck. The like times were foretold of the Romans, in their civil wars, and in the scourge of the Saracens, that men should seek death, and it should flee... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 4:2

Ecclesiastes 4:2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.The applause of the dead regulated, vindicated and improvedScripture itself sets us an example of applauding the virtues of the departed; but I think that in our funeral sermons, in our obituaries and on our sepulchres, there is much which needs to be regulated.I. It must be qualified.1. We are not to praise the dead with indiscriminate eulogy; for there is such a thing as confounding... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:2

Ecc 4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Ver. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead. ] Because they are out of the reach of wrong doers; and if dead in the Lord, they have "entered into peace, they do rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness." Isa 57:2 But if otherwise, men had better do anything, suffer anything here than die; since by death, as by a trap door, they enter into those terrors and torments that shall never... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ecclesiastes 4:2

Ecclesiastes 2:17, Ecclesiastes 9:4-Joshua :, Job 3:17-Ecclesiastes : Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 7:1 - the day Jeremiah 22:10 - Weep ye Revelation 14:13 - Blessed read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ecclesiastes 4:2

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.I praised — I judged them less miserable. For this is certain, that setting aside the future life, which Solomon doth not meddle with in the present debate; and considering the uncertainty, and vanity, and manifold calamities of the present life, a wise man would not account it worth his while to live. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 4:2

2. I praised the dead The style of this verse shows that the writer was an eyewitness of much that he names, and felt a most lively emotion in view of it. “There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.” Job 3:17. read more