Ecclesiastes 4:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. ”

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses set forth the vanity of earthly prosperity even on a throne. Opinion as to their application is chiefly divided between considering them a parable or fiction like that of the childless...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

I considered all the living who walk under the sun, (k) with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. (k) Who follow and flatter the king's son, or him that will succeed to enter into cred...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4. A Gloomy Survey. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression ( Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 ), rivalry ( Ecclesiastes 4:4-6 ), isolation amounting to self-tortur...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. With the second child that shall stand up - The Targum applies this to the case of Jerobo...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I considered all the living— I saw all the living eager to walk under the sun, with the second son who should succeed him. —Ver. 16. No end of all the people! of all that resorted to them! Yet th...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. I considered all the living - all the present generation of subjects. With the...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Vicissitudes of Life. 'Oh, the pity of it!' 1-3. The mass of human suffering and the absence of pity are such that better off are the dead and still more the unborn. It is not only through God's...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I considered. — Heb., I saw. Most modern interpreters regard the “second child” as identical with the “young man” of Ecclesiastes 4:13 , and understand the passage, “I saw him at the head of a...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

SECOND SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20 I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom utter...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

From this general survey the preacher returned to examine the condition of the beings whom he had described as being no better than the beasts. He looked out upon them, and saw them in suffering, and...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. (16) There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I considered all the living which walk under the sun ,.... All men that were then alive, who were capable of walking upon the earth; even all of them that were under the heavens, in every land and n...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. Ver. 15. I considered all the living, &c. ] He means the multitude, that shallow b...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I considered all the living The general disposition of common people in all kingdoms, that they are fickle and inconstant, weary of their old governors, and desirous of changes; with the second ch...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Advantages of Society. 13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be adm...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I considered all the living; the general disposition or humour of common people in all kingdoms, that they are fickle and inconstant, weary of their old governors, and desirous of changes. Which w...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 4 The Dreadfulness of Oppression. Guidance on Living. This chapter begins with considering the dreadfulness of oppression and then continues with thoughts on living, giving both good and b...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 4:13 . Better is a poor and a wise child.] Not in the moral point of view, but happier—better off. Ecclesiastes 4:14 . For out of prison he cometh to reign.] Re...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 3:1-5 A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had no voice in making; that we often lie...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 4:2 . Wherefore I praised the dead more than the living, who are robbed, fleeced, and exposed to incessant afflictions, from oppression and war. Solomon alludes to extreme cases, such...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. On the advantages of Christian knowledge to the lower orders of society There is no topic on whic...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 4:1-21 Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of man ' s inability to be the architect of his own happiness . There are many things which inte...
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Evils of Social and Civil Life
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 15:6
Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I considered — The general disposition of common people, in all kingdoms, that they are fickle and inconstant. With the second child — This may be understood of the king's child, or son and heir, c...

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 4:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes