“ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? ”
Things - Namely, the various circumstances detailed in the foregoing chapters, from the Preacher’s personal experience, and his observation of other people, ending with the comprehensive declarat...
Ecclesiastes 6. Further Reflections on Wealth and Fate. Parallel with the bitter experience of the avaricious man who loses his wealth is that of the rich and successful man whose cherished desires...
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity— For there are many arguments to shew the multitude of vanities which prevail on the earth. Desvoeux: who concludes the verse here, and begins the...
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? Many things that increase vanity. The more wealth the more vanity. What (is) man the better? "Seeing" that man ca...
Life an Enigma 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness.
Things. — We might also translate “words.”
THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 ; Ecclesiastes 7:1-29 , and Ecclesiastes 8:1-15 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown th...
The preacher knows prosperity experimentally far better than poverty. Moreover, by observation he is more familiar with men of wealth than with poor men, and, therefore, he returns to a declaration o...
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. (8) For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? (9) Better is th...
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity ,.... As appears by all that has been said in this and the preceding Chapter s; such as wisdom and knowledge, wealth and riches, pleasure, power, and...
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better? Ver. 11. Seeing there be many things that increase. ] Seeing it is in vain to wrestle or wrangle with God, to seek to...
Seeing there be many things which increase vanity This seems to be added as a conclusion from all the foregoing Chapter s; seeing not only man is a vain creature in himself, but there are also many...
The Insatiableness of Desire. 11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? 12 For w...
This seems to be added as a conclusion of the disputation managed in all the foregoing Chapter s, Seeing not only man is a vain creature in himself, as hath been now said, but there are also many...
Man Should Not See Himself As Anything Special ( Ecclesiastes 6:10-12 ). The section closes with the warning that man should not see himself as anything special. Like all creatures he was named by...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 6:6 . Do not all go to one place?] All go to School—“the house of assembly of all living” ( Job 30:23 ). There all arrive equally poor; nor is the chance afforded th...
Ecclesiastes 5:8-7 I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superintendence of human affairs. This belief Koheleth now...
Ecclesiastes 6:2 . But a stranger eateth it. The richer families in Israel had often foreign servants, who rose to influence in their master's house. But greater was the affliction from invading a...
That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man. Solomon’s dark ideas of life He says in effect-- I. Fate is fixed. “That which hath been.” Everything is fate. Most men...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 6:1-21 Section 9. Koheleth proceeds to illustrate the fact which he stated at the end of the last chapter, viz. that the possession and enjoyment of wealth are alike...
Of the Vanity of Earthly Riches.
Ecclesiastes 1:17 ; Ecclesiastes 1:18 ; Ecclesiastes 1:6-9 ; Ecclesiastes 2:3-11 ; Ecclesiastes 3:19 ; Ecclesiastes 4:1-4 ; Ecclesiastes 4:16 ; Ecclesiastes 4:8 ; Ecclesiastes 5:7 ; Hosea 1...
Seeing — This seems to be added as a conclusion from all the foregoing chapters; seeing not only man is a vain creature in himself, but there are also many other things, which instead of diminishin...