Ecclesiastes 4:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. ”

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Wherefore I praised the (b) dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive. (b) Because they are no longer subject to these oppressions.
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - 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 4:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

praised . commended, or pronounced happy. Hebrew. sliabach, used only by David and Solomon.
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Wherefore I praised the dead - I considered those happy who had escaped from the pilgrimage of life to th...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living. A profane sentiment if...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - 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 4:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I praised the dead. — Job 3:11 ; Exodus 32:32 ; 1 Kings 19:4 ; Jeremiah 20:14 ; Jonah 4:3 . The word which is translated “yet” in this verse belongs to later Hebrew, and does not occur elsewhe...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - 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 4:2 - 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 4:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Solomon was not singular in this opinion: a voice from heaven proclaimed the same, Revelation 14:13 . B...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead ,.... Truly and properly so; not in a figurative sense, as dead sinners, men dead in trespasses and sins; nor carnal professors, that have a name...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Ver. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead. ] Because they are out of the reach of wrong doers; and if dead...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wherefore I praised the dead , &c. I judged them less miserable. For this is certain, that setting aside the future life, which Solomon doth not meddle with in the present debate, and considerin...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prevalence of Oppression. 1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and beho...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I praised; I judged them more happy, or less miserable; which he seems to deliver not only as the judgment of the flesh, or of the sense, or of men in misery, as this is commonly understood, but as...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Dreadfulness of Oppression ( Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 ). Having been faced up to the injustice in the world, and especially the injustice in its courts of justice, the Preacher now turns to consider...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 4:1 . So I returned.] Passing from the reflections of the last chapter to a new subject of contemplation. They had no comforter . The repetition of this phrase is i...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - 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 4:2 - 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 4:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. The applause of the dead regulated, vindicated and improved Scripture itself sets us an example of...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - 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 4:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Personal Misfortunes
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 2:17 ; Ecclesiastes 9:4-6 ; Job 3:17-21
Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I praised — I judged them less miserable. For this is certain, that setting aside the future life, which Solomon doth not meddle with in the present debate; and considering the uncertainty, and van...

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes