Ecclesiastes 6:8

1 Timothy 6:17; Ecclesiastes 2:14-16; Ecclesiastes 5:11; Genesis 17:1; Luke 1:6; Proverbs 19:1; Psalms 101:2; Psalms 116:9

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Connect these verses with Ecclesiastes 6:2-3 : “All labor is undertaken with a view to some profit, but as a rule the people who labor are never...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 6. Further Reflections on Wealth and Fate. Parallel with the bitter experience of the avaricious man who loses his wealth is that of t...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

what . what [advantage]. the wise . a wise one, or sage. the fool . a fool. Hebrew. kesil . See note on Proverbs 1:7 . the poor . a wretched...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? For what hath the wise more than the fool? - T...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

What hath the poor, &c.— What remaineth also to the very beggar, who knoweth how to walk before the living? The desire of the wise man who la...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? For what hath the wise more than the f...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Life an Enigma 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

That knoweth to walk before the living? ] In other words, that has the skill so to conduct himself as to earn respect in the eyes of his fellows.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

That knoweth to walk. — Understands how to conduct himself. But why this should be limited to the poor is not obvious.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 ; Ecclesiastes 7:1-29 , and Ecclesiastes 8:1-1...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The preacher knows prosperity experimentally far better than poverty. Moreover, by observation he is more familiar with men of wealth than with poor...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. (8) For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that k...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For what hath the wise more than the fool ,.... More delight and pleasure, in gratifying his senses, by eating and drinking: the wise man enjoys no...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? Ver. 8. For what hath the wise more than th...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

All the labour of man is for his mouth For meat and other necessary provisions of this life; and yet the appetite is not filled Although all that...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Insatiableness of Desire. 7 All the labour of man is for his mo...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The fool, to wit, in these matters. Both are equally subject to the same calamities, and partakers of the same comforts of this life. Before the l...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Even The Wise Do Not In The Last Analysis Have Any Advantage Over The Unthinking. So We Should Hold On To What God Gives Us Rather Than Dreaming Of...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 5:9-20 ; Ecclesiastes 6:1-9 I. In all grades of society human subsistence is very much the same. Even princes are not fed with am...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 6:1-21 Section 9. Koheleth proceeds to illustrate the fact which he stated at the end of the last chapter, viz. tha...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the Vanity of Earthly Riches.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For what hath the wise more than the fool? He who strives after real knowledge seems to have no advantage, according to outward appearances, over one...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

More — In these matters. Both are subject to the same calamities, and partakers of the same comforts of this life. The poor — More than the poor th...

⁸ For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Related Commentaries of Ecclesiastes 6:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ecclesiastes 6:8