Ecclesiastes 4:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. ”

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Either the fool’s sarcasm on his successful but restless neighbor; or the comment of Solomon recommending contentment with a moderate competence. The former meaning seems preferable.
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - 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 4:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. Better is a handful with quietness - These may be the words of the slothful man, and spoken in...
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The fool foldeth his hands, &c.— The fool, folding his hands together, and eating his own flesh, saith, Better is the palm of one hand full of rest, than both the hands full of work, and that...
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. Better (is) an handful (with) quietness, than both the hands full (with) travail. Hebrew, 'on...
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - 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 4:6 - 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 4:6 - 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 4:6 - 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 4:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Better [is] a handful [with] quietness ,.... These are the words of the fool, according to Aben Ezra; and which is the sense of other interpreters, particularly Mr. Broughton, who connects this vers...
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit. Ver. 6. Better is an handful with quietness. ] This is the sluggard's plea, whereby he bols...
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Better is a handful with quietness , &c. These are the words, either, 1st, Of the sluggard, making this apology for his idleness, that his little, with ease, is better than great riches got with...
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prevalence of Oppression. 4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of...
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

These are the words, either, 1. Of the sluggard making this apology for his idleness, that his little with ease, is better than great riches got with much trouble. Or, 2. Of Solomon, who elsewher...
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - 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 4:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 4:5 . Eateth his own flesh.] Accomplishes his own ruin by indolence, exhausts his fortune, preys upon himself like one mad with hunger. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PAR...
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - 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 4:6 - 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 4:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. An old portrait of modern men Here is a portrait, drawn by a man who lived thousands of ye...
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - 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 4:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Personal Misfortunes
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:16 ; Proverbs 15:17 ; Proverbs 16:8 ; Proverbs 17:1 ; Psalms 37:16
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Better — These are the words of the sluggard, making this apology for his idleness, That his little with ease, is better than great riches got with much trouble.

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes