전도서 6:4-7 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1-6

Solomon had shown, in the close of the foregoing chapter, how good it is to make a comfortable use of the gifts of God's providence; now here he shows the evil of the contrary, having and not using, gathering to lay up for I know not what contingent emergencies to come, not to lay out on the most urgent occasions present. This is an evil which Solomon himself saw under the sun, Eccl. 6:1. A great deal of evil there is under the sun. There is a world above the sun where there is no evil, yet... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:7-10

The preacher here further shows the vanity and folly of heaping up worldly wealth and expecting happiness in it. I. How much soever we toil about the world, and get out of it, we can have for ourselves no more than a maintenance (Eccl. 6:7): All the labour of man is for his mouth, which craves it of him (Prov. 16:26); it is but food and raiment; what is more others have, not we; it is all for the mouth. Meats are but for the belly and the belly for meats; there is nothing for the head and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:4

For he cometh in with vanity ,.... The Targum adds, "into this world." Some understand this of the abortive, and render it, "though he cometh in with vanity" F24 כי בא "quamvis venit", Drusius. , yet is to be preferred to the covetous man: others interpret it of the covetous man himself; and scrape of both: or, however, they may be compared together in these instances; the abortive comes into the world in vain, for nothing, and answers no purpose, as can well be observed; and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:5

Moreover, he hath not seen the sun ,.... This must be spoken of the abortive, and seems to confirm the sense of the former text, as belonging to it; and whereas it has never seen the light of the sun, nor enjoyed the pleasure and comfort of it, it is no ways distressing to it to be without it. The Targum is, "the light of the law he seeth not; and knoweth not between good and evil, to judge between this world and that to come:' so the Vulgate Latin version, "neither knows the difference... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:6

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told ,.... Or two thousand years, which no man ever did, nor even one thousand years; Methuselah, the oldest man, did not live so long as that; this is than twice the age of the oldest man: there is one sort of the Ethiopians, who are said F1 Mela tie Situ Orbis, l. 3. c. 9. to live almost half space of time longer than usual, called from thence Macrobii; which Pliny F2 Nat. Hist. 1. 7. c. 2. makes to be one hundred and forty years,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labour of man is for his mouth ,.... For the food of his mouth, as the Targum; for the sustenance of his body, for food and clothing, part being put for the whole: all that a man labours for is to get this; and if he does not enjoy it, his labour is in vain; meats are for the belly, which are taken in by the mouth, and for these a man labours; and if he does not eat them, when he has got them, he labours to no purpose; and yet the appetite is not filled ; even the bodily or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labor of man - This is the grand primary object of all human labor; merely to provide for the support of life by procuring things necessary. And life only exists for the sake of the soul; because man puts these things in place of spiritual good, the appetite - the intense desire after the supreme good - is not satisfied. When man learns to provide as distinctly for his soul as he does for his body, then he will begin to be happy, and may soon attain his end. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1-6

Section 9. Koheleth proceeds to illustrate the fact which he stated at the end of the last chapter, viz. that the possession and enjoyment of wealth are alike the free gift of God. We may see men possessed of all the gifts of fortune, yet denied the faculty of enjoying them. Hence we again conclude that wealth cannot secure happiness . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:4

For he cometh in with vanity ; rather, for it came into nothingness . The reference is to the fetus, or still-born child, not to the rich man, as is implied by the Authorized Version. This, when it appeared, had no independent life or being, was a mere nothing. And departeth in darkness ; and goeth into the darkness . It is taken away and put out of sight. And his ( its ) name shall be covered with darkness. It is a nameless thing, unrecorded, unremembered. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:5

It has seen nothing of the world, known nothing of life, its joys and its sufferings, and is speedily forgotten. To" see the sun" is a metaphor for to "live," as Ecclesiastes 7:11 ; Ecclesiastes 11:7 ; Job 3:16 , and implies activity and work, the contrary of rest. This hath more rest than the other ; literally, there is rest to this more than to that . The rest that belongs to the abortion is better than that which belongs to the rich man. Others take the clause to say simply, "It... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:7-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 6:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:1-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Ecclesiastes 6:5

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