Proverbs 19:10; Proverbs 30:22
The “evil” of Ecclesiastes 10:5 is here specified as that caprice of a king by which an unworthy favorite of low origin is promoted to successive...
Ecclesiastes 9:17 to Ecclesiastes 10:15 . Experience Crystallised in Proverbs. Ecclesiastes 9:17 to Ecclesiastes 10:3 forms a series of pr...
horses. No evidence of. late origin of this book, for we read of them in 1 Kings 4:26 1 Kings 4:28 . 1 Kings 10:26 ; 1 Kings 10:28 . 1Ki 22:4....
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
I have seen servants upon horses, &c.— From the fifth to this verse we have the third instance. Princes, whose character depends upon the beh...
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Servants upon horses - the world turned upside down. the wo...
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...
Considering that the importation of horses was a new thing in the reign of Solomon, we look on it as a mark of later age that a noble should think hi...
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...
How, then, does worldly wisdom work? The preacher shows that its first manifestation is discretion based upon selfishness. This section is a series o...
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. There is no doubt great inequality in common life: and not unfrequ...
I have seen servants upon horses ,.... Which being scarce in Judea, were only rode upon by princes and great personages, or such as were in affluent...
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Ver. 7. I have seen servants upon horses, ] i.e., Servile sou...
There is an evil , &c. I have observed another great vanity and misdemeanour among men; as an error which proceedeth , &c. Or rather, as th...
Mutual Duties of Princes and Subjects. 4 If the spirit of the ruler r...
Servants; men of a servile condition and disposition, who are altogether unfit for places of dignity. Upon horses; riding upon horses, as a badge...
Behaviour Connected With Superiors ( Ecclesiastes 10:4-7 ). Ecclesiastes 10:4 ‘If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, do not leave you...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 10:5 . As an error which proceedeth from the ruler.] Not a mere error, as such, but one which is manifest by its co...
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...
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)...
Ecclesiastes 10:1 . Dead flies cause the ointment, of exquisite perfumes, to send forth a stinking savour; a satirical proverb, applicable to ch...
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. A social scene in human life I. This social scene is common....
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 10:1-21 Section 11. A little folly mars the effect of wisdom, and is sure to make itself conspicuous. Ecclesia...
In the Midst of Presumption and Arrogance
I have seen servants, men whose station in life was among the lowly, upon horses, like mighty lords, and princes, men qualified for the highest p...
7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.