Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 7:1-14
1. Adversity and prosperity 7:1-14He began by exposing our ignorance of the significance of adversity and prosperity (Ecclesiastes 7:1-14; cf. Job). Both of these conditions, he noted, can have good and bad effects-depending on how a person responds to them. Prosperity is not always or necessarily good (cf. Ecclesiastes 6:1-12), and adversity, or affliction, is not always or necessarily evil (cf. Ecclesiastes 7:1-15). Actually, adversity is often a greater good than prosperity. [Note: Kaiser,... read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:8
8. connected with :-. Let the "wise" wait for "the end," and the "oppressions" which now (in "the beginning") perplex their faith, will be found by God's working to be overruled to their good. "Tribulation worketh patience" ( :-), which is infinitely better than "the proud spirit" that prosperity might have generated in them, as it has in fools (Psalms 73:2; Psalms 73:3; Psalms 73:12-14; Psalms 73:17-26; James 5:11). read more