Ecclesiastes 10:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This verse is by its meaning so closely connected with Ecclesiastes 9:18 that the selection of it for the beginning of a new chapter seems unfort...

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 9:17 to Ecclesiastes 10:15 . Experience Crystallised in Proverbs. Ecclesiastes 9:17 to Ecclesiastes 10:3 forms a series of pr...

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Dead flies. Hebrew flies of death: i.e. flies that bring or produce death. Supply the Figure of speech Ellipsis, "[as] dead". cause . [are that...

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and...

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dead flies cause, &c.— The smell arising from the perfume of the perfumer is infected by dead flies; so is the value of wisdom and reputation...

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and...

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dead flies, etc.] This v. really belongs to the end of Ecclesiastes 9 . As a few of the poisonous flies abounding in hot countries would render va...

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Practical Advice Touching Life's Puzzles 1-8. Cultivate wisdom and tact, specially in the dangers that attend upon courts, but also in ordinary op...

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

FOURTH SECTION The Quest Achieved. The Chief Good Is To Be Found, Not In Wisdom, Nor In Pleasure, Nor In Devotion To Affairs And Its Rewards; But...

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

How, then, does worldly wisdom work? The preacher shows that its first manifestation is discretion based upon selfishness. This section is a series o...

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The Preacher is still prosecuting his sermon through this Chapter; but folding up many important sayings within short sentences. Ecclesi...

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour ,.... Such, as Jarchi observes, are in the winter season, which are...

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: [so doth] a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom [and]...

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Dead flies , &c. Solomon seems in these words to be prosecuting what he had said in the last clause of the preceding chapter; showing how much g...

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Advantages of Wisdom.       1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apot...

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 10 Observations on wisdom and folly, Ecclesiastes 10:1-3 . Of rulers, Ecclesiastes 10:4-7 . Of wrong and injustice, Ec...

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sayings Comparing the Wise and the Unlearned and Thoughtless ( Ecclesiastes 10:1-3 ). Ecclesiastes 10:1 ‘Dead flies cause the ointment of the p...

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 10:1 . Dead flies.] Lit ., “Flies of death;” because, as such, they corrupt the ointment. The apothecary.] A deale...

Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 8:16-10 I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth points out that it is impossible for us to construct a...

Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 8:16-12 I. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his last course. (1)...

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 10:1 . Dead flies cause the ointment, of exquisite perfumes, to send forth a stinking savour; a satirical proverb, applicable to ch...

The Biblical Illustrator

Dead flies cause the ointment. .. to send forth a stinking savour. Dead flies Among the Jews, oil rendered fragrant by being mixed with preciou...

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 10:1-21 Section 11. A little folly mars the effect of wisdom, and is sure to make itself conspicuous. Ecclesia...

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Dead flies, literally, "flies of death," that is, such as fall into a mixture and, in decomposing, taint it with their rottenness, cause the ointmen...

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In the Midst of Presumption and Arrogance