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

“ For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. ”

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

  He ... his - Rather, it ... its. The untimely birth is spoken of.

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• Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For (d) he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. (d) Meaning, the untimely fruit whose life neither profited nor hurt any.

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

  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...

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• Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  he cometh: i.e. in the untimely birth of Ecclesiastes 6:3 .

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

  For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

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

  For he cometh in with vanity, &c.— For it is in vain he came, and he shall depart in darkness.

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

  For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. For he - rather, it, the "untimely birth." Cometh in with vanity - to no purpose; a t...

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

  Life an Enigma 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness.

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• Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He. — Rather, it — viz., the untimely birth.

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

  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...

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

  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...

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

  If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is...

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

  For he cometh in with vanity ,.... The Targum adds, "into this world." Some understand this of the abortive, and render it, "though he cometh in with vanity" x, yet is to be preferred to the covetou...

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• Ecclesiastes 6:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Ver. 4. For he cometh in with vanity, &c. ] As nothing, being senseless of good or evil. "...

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

  If a man beget a hundred children Very many, to whom he intends to leave his estate; and live many years Which is the chief thing that he desires, and which gives him opportunity of increasing hi...

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

  The Miseries of Covetousness.       1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:   2 A m...

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

  For; or rather, although , as this particle is frequently rendered. For this verse seems to contain not so much a reason of what he last said, that an untimely birth is better than he , as an ans...

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

  Life Is Not Enjoyable To Even Some of the Rich ( Ecclesiastes 6:1-7 ). Ecclesiastes 6:1 ‘There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavily on men. A man to whom God gives ri...

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• Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 6:1 . Common among men] In the strict meaning of the word, the reference is to the magnitude of the evil, and not to the frequency of it. That which appears to be go...

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• Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Ecclesiastes 5:9-20 ; Ecclesiastes 6:1-9 I. In all grades of society human subsistence is very much the same. Even princes are not fed with ambrosia, nor do poets subsist on asphodel. The prof...

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

  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...

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• Ecclesiastes 6:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  If a man live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, I say that an untimely birth is better than he. The sorrows of old age The wise Preacher s...

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• Ecclesiastes 6:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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

  Of the Vanity of Earthly Riches.

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• Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Psalms 109:13

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• Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He — The abortive; of whom alone, that passage is true, hath not seen the sun, Ecclesiastes 6:5 . Cometh — Into the world. In vain — To no purpose; without any comfort or benefit by it. Departeth...

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