Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 9:1-10
1. The future of the righteous on earth 9:1-10 read more
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Kjv
Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ecclesiastes 9:7-9
Again Solomon recommended the present enjoyment of the good things God allows us to experience in life (cf. Ecclesiastes 2:24-26; Ecclesiastes 3:12-13; Ecclesiastes 3:22; Ecclesiastes 5:18-19). This was his conclusion, since our future on the earth is uncertain, and since after we die, we cannot enjoy these things. In particular, we should enjoy food and drink (Ecclesiastes 9:7), clean clothing and perfume (Ecclesiastes 9:8), and marital companionship (Ecclesiastes 9:9), among other of life’s... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 9:1-18
Live Worthily While You May1-3. The future is in God’s hands. Good and bad alike must die.1. Considered in] RV ’laid to.’ Declare] RV ’explore.’ No man.. before them] RV ’whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.’ Whether God’s dealings with them shall be such as to suggest His favour or displeasure is unknown, because the part of life not yet traversed cannot be penetrated. 2. There seems no discrimination in the lot of men.4. A living dog] Life has at any rate one... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ecclesiastes 9:1-18
Ecclesiastes 9:2 It is verbally true, that in the sacred Scriptures it is written: As is the good, so is the sinner, and he that sweareth as he that feareth an oath. A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, drink, and be merry, etc. But he who should repeat these words, and this assurance, to an ignorant man in the hour of his temptation, lingering at the door of an ale-house, or hesitating as to the testimony required of him in the court of justice, would, spite of this verbal... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 9:1-18
7FOURTH SECTIONThe Quest Achieved. The Chief Good Is To Be Found, Not In Wisdom, Nor In Pleasure, Nor In Devotion To Affairs And Its Rewards;But In A Wise Use And A Wise Enjoyment Of The Present Life, Combined With A Steadfast Faith In The Life To Come Ecclesiastes 8:16 - Ecclesiastes 12:7AT last we approach the end of our Quest. The Preacher has found the Chief Good, and will show us where to find it. But are we even yet prepared to welcome it and to lay hold of it? Apparently he thinks we are... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 9:7-12
Nor in Pleasure:Ecclesiastes 9:7-12Imagine, then, a Jew brought to the bitter pass which Coheleth has described. He has acquainted himself with wisdom, native and foreign; and wisdom has led him to conclusions of virtue. Nor is he of those who love virtue as they love music-without practicing it. Believing that a righteous and religious carriage of himself will ensure happiness and equip him to encounter the problems of life, he has striven to be good and pure, to offer his sacrifices and pay... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ecclesiastes 9:1-12
CHAPTER 9 1. The common fate (Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 ) 2. Make the best of life (Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 ) 3. The great uncertainty (Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 ) Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 . Here is another conclusion. The righteous and the wise with their works are in the hands of God. One event is in store for all, for the righteous, the wicked, the good, the clean, the unclean, the one who sacrificeth and the one who sacrificeth not--the grave is the one common goal. In that goal there is the end of all... read more
James Gray
James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 9:1-11
The interval between this chapter and the preceding represents a pause in the writer’s thought, and now he seems to set out on a new quest for the chief good in life. He will seek it in wise conduct. He will renounce feasting and trying the opposite (Ecclesiastes 7:1-6 ); he will avoid extremes (Ecclesiastes 7:15-18 ); no one is perfectly righteous (Ecclesiastes 7:19-22 ); the worst thing he has found is woman (Ecclesiastes 7:23-26 ); and the conclusion is that man is indeed a fallen creature... read more
Joseph Parker
The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Ecclesiastes 9:1-18
The Land of Shadows Ecclesiastes 9:0 In this chapter we have a number of loose and disconnected notes about human life. The writer seems to have jotted down things as they came into his mind. His book is rather a heap of stones than an orderly building. Perhaps it is hardly just to regard the Book of Ecclesiastes as a piece of elaborate and continuous logic; it ought to be taken rather as a series of notes or memoranda which the writer himself could have expounded, and which readers can only... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ecclesiastes 9:9
9. wife . . . lovest—godly and true love, opposed to the "snares" of the "thousand" concubines (Ecclesiastes 7:26; Ecclesiastes 7:28), "among" whom Solomon could not find the true love which joins one man to one woman (Proverbs 5:15; Proverbs 5:18; Proverbs 5:19; Proverbs 18:22; Proverbs 19:14). read more