Proverbs 15:16; Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 16:8; Proverbs 17:1; Psalms 37:16
Either the fool’s sarcasm on his successful but restless neighbor; or the comment of Solomon recommending contentment with a moderate competence. T...
Ecclesiastes 4. A Gloomy Survey. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression ( Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 ), rivalry ( Eccles...
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. Better is a handful with quietness - These m...
The fool foldeth his hands, &c.— The fool, folding his hands together, and eating his own flesh, saith, Better is the palm of one hand full of...
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. Better (is) an handful (with) quietness, tha...
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...
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...
It is rendered hopeless by the base origin of Human Industries. Ecclesiastes 4:4-8 This stinging sense of the miserable estate of his race has,...
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...
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. (4) Again, I considered all tr...
Better [is] a handful [with] quietness ,.... These are the words of the fool, according to Aben Ezra; and which is the sense of other interpreters,...
Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit. Ver. 6. Better is an handful with quietne...
Better is a handful with quietness , &c. These are the words, either, 1st, Of the sluggard, making this apology for his idleness, that his littl...
The Prevalence of Oppression. 4 Again, I considered all travail, and...
These are the words, either, 1. Of the sluggard making this apology for his idleness, that his little with ease, is better than great riches got wi...
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 4:5 . Eateth his own flesh.] Accomplishes his own ruin by indolence, exhausts his fortune, preys upon himself like...
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...
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. An old portrait of modern men Here is a...
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. Quality better than quantity The “quietness”...
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
Better is an handful, a small amount of this world's goods, with quietness, to be enjoyed in peace, than both the hands full, a large measure of...
Better — These are the words of the sluggard, making this apology for his idleness, That his little with ease, is better than great riches got with...
6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.