1 Kings 4:21-24; Ecclesiastes 2:1-12
Solomon having found that wisdom and folly agree in being subject to vanity, now contrasts one with the other Ecclesiastes 2:13 . Both are brought...
For who can eat, or who else can hasten (q) [to it], more than I? (q) Meaning, to pleasures.
Ecclesiastes 1:12 to Ecclesiastes 2:26 . Qoheleth's Investigations. Assuming the character of Solomon the writer tells of his search for happine...
The best thing for a man is to get what pleasure he can out of life. And after all this is the Divine scheme of life, the ordinance of God. No one ca...
who else can hasten hereunto . who can enjoy? more than I. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic, read mimmennu, instead of mimmen...
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto , more than I?
For who can eat, &c.— For who shall eat, and who shall enjoy without him? It might also be rendered, For who shall eat, and who shall reflec...
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? Who can eat, or who else can hasten (hereunto), more than I? - Hebrew, yaac...
Epicureanism and Wisdom alike Profitless 1-3. The writer makes enjoyment his quest, while aware that it is folly, and avoiding excess in a philoso...
Hasten] RV 'have enjoyment.' More than I?] RM 'apart from Him?' i.e. it is only through God's ordinance that simple bodily pleasures can change t...
Hasten. — Habakkuk 1:8 . More than I. — There is a various rendering, which has the authority of the LXX., and which has every appearance of be...
Turning from the pursuit of knowledge to the pathway of pleasure, the king had given himself up to mirth, seeking the false stimulus of wine. In this...
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how d...
For who can eat ?.... Who should eat, but such a man that has laboured for it? or, who has a power to eat, that is, cheerfully, comfortably, and fre...
For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto], more than I? Ver. 25. For who can eat, or who can hasten? &c. ] And yet I have found - and...
For who can eat , &c. For the truth of this you may rely upon my experience: for who can more freely and fully enjoy the comforts of this life t...
Sources of Dissatisfaction; The Cheerful Use of Abundance. 17 Therefo...
Who can more freely and fully enjoy the comforts of this life than I did? This verse is added to confirm what he said in the foregoing verse from his...
His Preliminary Conclusion ( Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 ). Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 ‘There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink,...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 2:24 . There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink] Not in the Epicurean sense, worshipping...
Ecclesiastes 1:12-2 I. As was natural in so wise a man, the Preacher turns first to wisdom. It is the wisdom that is born of wide and varied exper...
Ecclesiastes 2:1 . Enjoy pleasure. The first doctrine of Epicurus, whose system is here rebutted. Acts 17:18 . Ecclesiastes 2:2 . I said of la...
Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth. The threefold view of human life Three views of human life are given in this remarkable chapter. I....
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. The simple joys...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 2:1-21 Section 2. Vanity of striving after pleasure and wealth. Ecclesiastes 2:1 Dissatisfied with the resu...
The Vanity of Labor in Itself
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, to the enjoyment of God's gifts, more than I? Christians may profit by the sad experiment which S...
Vanity and Vexation under the Sun Ecclesiastes 2:11-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We shall introduce our study with quotations from our booklet on Ecc...
What Is Good in This Life Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 ; Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to the second great question in the Book...
More than I — Therefore he could best tell whether they were able of themselves, without God's special gift, to yield a man content, in the enjoyin...
25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?