Ecclesiastes 7:9 KJV

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:1-18

Ecclesiastes 5:8-7:18 I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superintendence of human affairs. This belief Koheleth now proceeds to justify. (1) Do not be alarmed, he says, when you see the injustice of oppressors. There are limits beyond which this injustice cannot go. God is the Author of this system of restriction and punishment. (2) The Divine government may be seen in the law of compensation. Pleasure does not... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Ecclesiastes 7:0 and Ecclesiastes 8:1-15 I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities He has given us and the opportunities He sends us. Nevertheless we may pursue this right end from a wrong motive, in a wrong spirit. Both spirit and motive are wrong if we pursue our competence as though it were a good so great that we can know no happy content and rest unless we attain it. For what is it that... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again, it is important that we make note of the fact that the book of Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon in his later years. After he had assiduously pursued to find the purpose and meaning of life in so many different things: in wisdom, in wealth, in fame, in building, in pleasures. And after his pursuit, which carried him into every area and experience of life,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Ecclesiastes 7:1 . A good name is better than precious ointment. Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48:0. Wisdom and virtue outlive the apothecary’s arts. Ecclesiastes 7:2 . It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. Both families and nations have, by affliction, come to their right mind, like the Prodigal. Ecclesiastes 7:8 . Better is the end of a thing, or of a beclouded... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:9

Ecc 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Ver. 9. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry. ] The hasty man, we say, never wants woe. For wrath is an evil counsellor, and enwrappeth a man in manifold troubles, mischiefs, and miseries. It makes man like the bee, that vindictive creature, which, to be revenged, loseth her sting, and becomes a drone; or, like Tamar, who, to be even with her father-in-law, defiled him and herself with incest. "Cease,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ecclesiastes 7:9

hasty: 1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:22, 2 Samuel 19:43, Esther 3:5, Esther 3:6, Proverbs 14:17, Proverbs 16:32, Jonah 4:9, Ephesians 4:26, Ephesians 4:27, James 1:19 anger: Genesis 4:5, Genesis 4:6, Genesis 4:8, Genesis 34:7, Genesis 34:8, Genesis 34:25, Genesis 34:26, Genesis 34:30, Genesis 34:31, 2 Samuel 13:22, 2 Samuel 13:28, 2 Samuel 13:32, Proverbs 26:23-Ezekiel :, Mark 6:19, Mark 6:24 Reciprocal: Genesis 27:41 - then 1 Samuel 20:32 - what hath 1 Kings 21:4 - And he laid him Esther 5:10... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:9

9. Be not hasty… angry This exhortation comes as an inference from the foregoing remarks. Even an enemy may tell us some things good for us to know, much more, then, should we welcome the “faithful wounds” the honest rebukes of a friend. Only a fool would be angry at wholesome reproof. But how natural it is to be in this more or less foolish! read more