Daniel 3:16; Daniel 3:17; Ephesians 4:3
The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by his brotherless, childless isolation. Ecclesiastes 4:8 A second - Any...
And if one prevaileth against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold (g) cord is not quickly broken. (g) By this proverb he declares how nece...
Ecclesiastes 4. A Gloomy Survey. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression ( Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 ), rivalry ( Eccles...
prevail against . overpower. Hebrew. takaph, supposed to belong to later Hebrew, but it is found in Job 14:20 with Job 15:24 (the only three o...
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
And if one prevail against him, &c.— And though one should be strong, the two will make a stand against him; for a three-stringed cord shall n...
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. If one prevail against him. One = the en...
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.
RV 'And if a man prevail against him that, is alone.'
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...
Yet these are capable of a nobler Motive and Mode. Ecclesiastes 4:9-16 Now a jealous rivalry culminating in mere avarice, -that surely is not t...
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...
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. (10) For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him tha...
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him ,.... If an enemy, or a thief, or a robber, attack anyone of them, in friendship and fellows...
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Ver. 12. And if one prevail against him, &...
For, if they fall If one or more of them fall in any way; as into any mistakes, and errors, or sins, dangers, or distresses. The one will lift up...
The Vanity of Human Wishes. 7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under...
Against him; against either of them. A threefold cord is not quickly broken; if a man have not only one, but two or more friends, he is so much t...
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...
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. The necessity and benefits of religious society I. Prove the truth o...
A threefold cord is not quickly broken. A threefold cord I have read somewhere that the ancient Thebans had in their army a band of men who wer...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 4:1-21 Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of man ' s inability to be the architect of his...
Evils of Social and Civil Life
And if one prevail against him, if an individual person finds himself obliged to submit to the attacks of some criminal, two shall withstand him, t...
Prevail — Against either of them.
12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.