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The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by his brotherless, childless isolation. Ecclesiastes 4:8 A second - Any...
Ecclesiastes 4. A Gloomy Survey. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression ( Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 ), rivalry ( Eccles...
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. I saw vanity - a vanity, described in Ecclesiastes 4:8 .
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 sti...
Two more ills of life are covetousness aria loneliness.
Then I returned. — The vanity of toil is especially apparent in the case of a solitary man. It is possible, as has been suggested (see Ecclesiaste...
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 i...
And by Human Injustice and Perversity. Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 ; Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 But not only are our endeavours to find the "good" of our la...
It is rendered hopeless by the base origin of Human Industries. Ecclesiastes 4:4-8 This stinging sense of the miserable estate of his race has,...
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 lo...
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. (8) There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is th...
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. Another vanity besides what he had taken notice of, and is as follows. Aben Ezra's note is, "I tu...
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. Ver. 7. Then I returned, and saw vanity, &c., ] i.e., Another extreme of vanity, visible...
The Vanity of Human Wishes. 7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under...
Chapter 4 The Dreadfulness of Oppression. Guidance on Living. This chapter begins with considering the dreadfulness of oppression and then continu...
Sundry Observations On Life ( Ecclesiastes 4:4-12 ). Having all to briefly considered the oppression that was in the world, which has left him fee...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 4:10 . If they fall.] Not both together, but if one or the other falls. Ecclesiastes 4:12 . A threefold cord.]...
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...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 . Wherefore I praised the dead more than the living, who are robbed, fleeced, and exposed to incessant afflictions, from oppressi...
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...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 4:1-21 Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of man ' s inability to be the architect of his...
Then I returned, fixing his attention upon another point that needed explanation, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Evils of Social and Civil Life
Ecclesiastes 4:1 ; Psalms 78:33 ; Zechariah 1:6
7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.