John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:2
A time to be born ,.... The Targum is, "to beget sons and daughters;' but rather it is to bear them, there being a time in nature fixed for that, called the hour of a woman, Job 14:1 ; and a time to die ; the time of a man's coming into the world and going out of it, both being fixed by the Lord F6 "Stat sua cuique dies, breve et irreparabile tempus omnibus est vitae"; Virgil. Aeneid. l. 10. : this is true of all men in general, of all men that come into the world, for whom... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-10
The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year. In the wheel of nature (Jas. 3:6) sometimes one spoke is uppermost and by and by the contrary; there is a constant ebbing and flowing, waxing and waning; from one extreme to the... read more