Ecclesiastes 10:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “evil” of Ecclesiastes 10:5 is here specified as that caprice of a king by which an unworthy favorite of low origin is promoted to successive dignities, while a noble person is degraded or ne...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

horses. No evidence of. late origin of this book, for we read of them in 1 Kings 4:26 1 Kings 4:28 . 1 Kings 10:26 ; 1 Kings 10:28 . 1Ki 22:4. 2 Kings 9:33 ; 2 Kings 14:20 . If not in common...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I have seen servants upon horses, &c.— From the fifth to this verse we have the third instance. Princes, whose character depends upon the behaviour of those whom they employ, as much as upon...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Servants upon horses - the world turned upside down. the worthless exalted to dignity ( Jeremiah 17:25 ; and...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Practical Advice Touching Life's Puzzles 1-8. Cultivate wisdom and tact, specially in the dangers that attend upon courts, but also in ordinary operations.

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Considering that the importation of horses was a new thing in the reign of Solomon, we look on it as a mark of later age that a noble should think himself dishonoured by having to go on foot while hi...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

FOURTH SECTION The 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...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

How, then, does worldly wisdom work? The preacher shows that its first manifestation is discretion based upon selfishness. This section is a series of brief sayings which are of the nature of proverb...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. There is no doubt great inequality in common life: and not unfrequently, men that are princes in understanding, may...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I have seen servants upon horses ,.... Which being scarce in Judea, were only rode upon by princes and great personages, or such as were in affluent circumstances; and therefore it was an unusual an...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Ver. 7. I have seen servants upon horses, ] i.e., Servile souls, base spirited abjects, slaves to their lusts,...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

There is an evil , &c. I have observed another great vanity and misdemeanour among men; as an error which proceedeth , &c. Or rather, as the Hebrew may be translated, which is indeed an er...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mutual Duties of Princes and Subjects.       4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yiel...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Servants; men of a servile condition and disposition, who are altogether unfit for places of dignity. Upon horses; riding upon horses, as a badge of their dignity, as Esther 6:8,9 Jer 17:25 E...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Behaviour Connected With Superiors ( Ecclesiastes 10:4-7 ). Ecclesiastes 10:4 ‘If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, do not leave your place, for deference will compensate for great o...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 10:5 . As an error which proceedeth from the ruler.] Not a mere error, as such, but one which is manifest by its consequences—caprices of despotism like those descri...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 8:16-10 I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth points out that it is impossible for us to construct a satisfactory policy of life. "The work of God," or...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 10:1 . Dead flies cause the ointment, of exquisite perfumes, to send forth a stinking savour; a satirical proverb, applicable to characters in all the public walks of life. A genera...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. A social scene in human life I. This social scene is common. 1. In the political realm. We see small-minded...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 10:1-21 Section 11. A little folly mars the effect of wisdom, and is sure to make itself conspicuous. Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the...

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In the Midst of Presumption and Arrogance

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:10 ; Proverbs 30:22