Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 9:4-6; Job 3:17-21
Wherefore I praised the (b) dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive. (b) Because they are no longer subject to these oppres...
Ecclesiastes 4. A Gloomy Survey. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression ( Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 ), rivalry ( Eccles...
praised . commended, or pronounced happy. Hebrew. sliabach, used only by David and Solomon.
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Wherefore I praised the dead - I considered those happy...
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already...
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...
I praised the dead. — Job 3:11 ; Exodus 32:32 ; 1 Kings 19:4 ; Jeremiah 20:14 ; Jonah 4:3 . The word which is translated “yet” in this verse b...
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...
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...
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Solomon was not singular in this opinion: a voice from...
Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead ,.... Truly and properly so; not in a figurative sense, as dead sinners, men dead in trespasses...
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Ver. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead. ] Because they...
Wherefore I praised the dead , &c. I judged them less miserable. For this is certain, that setting aside the future life, which Solomon doth not...
The Prevalence of Oppression. 1 So I returned, and considered all the...
I praised; I judged them more happy, or less miserable; which he seems to deliver not only as the judgment of the flesh, or of the sense, or of men...
The Dreadfulness of Oppression ( Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 ). Having been faced up to the injustice in the world, and especially the injustice in its cou...
Chapter 4 The Dreadfulness of Oppression. Guidance on Living. This chapter begins with considering the dreadfulness of oppression and then continu...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 4:1 . So I returned.] Passing from the reflections of the last chapter to a new subject of contemplation. They had...
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...
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. The applause of the dead regulated, vindicated and...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 4:1-21 Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of man ' s inability to be the architect of his...
Personal Misfortunes
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, and thus beyond the reach of tyranny and oppression, more than the living which are yet alive,...
I praised — I judged them less miserable. For this is certain, that setting aside the future life, which Solomon doth not meddle with in the presen...
2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.