Ecclesiastes 4:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. ”

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Yea, (c) better [is he] than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. (c) He speaks according to the judgment of the flesh which cannot abide to...
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - 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 4:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

better. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:24 .
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. Which hath not yet been - Better never to have been born into the world, than...
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Yea, better is he than both they— Nay, I say, he is happier than either, who is not yet come to life, who hath not seen the misery that prevaileth under the sun. Desvoeux. Ecclesiastes 4:4 ....
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. Who hath not seen - nor experienced.
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - 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 4:3 - 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 4:3 - 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 4:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. (4) Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man i...
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yea, better [is he] than both they which hath not yet been ,.... That is, an unborn person; who is preferred both to the dead that have seen oppression, and to the living that are under it; see Job...
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. Ver. 3. Yea, better is he than both they. ] The heathen could say, Optimum...
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - 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 4:3 - 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 4:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Which hath not yet been; who was never born. How this is true, see on the foregoing verse. Not seen, i.e. not felt; for as seeing good is put for enjoying it, Ecclesiastes 2:24 , so seeing e...
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - 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 4:3 - 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 4:3 - 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 4:3 - 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 4:3 - 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 4:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Personal Misfortunes
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 1:14 ; Ecclesiastes 2:17 ; Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 ; Jeremiah 20:17 ; Jeremiah 20:18 ; Jeremiah 9:2 ; Jeremiah 9:3 ; Job 10:18 ; Job 10:19 ; Job 3:10-16 ; Luke 23:29 ; Matthew 24:...
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Better is he — Who was never born. Not seen — Not felt: for as seeing good is put for enjoying it, so seeing evil is put for suffering it.

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes