Ecclesiastes 9:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sinner - The word in the original indicates intellectual as well as moral error.

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 843 THE DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE OF SINNERS Ecclesiastes 9:18 . One sinner destroyeth much good . THE influence of every man in his sph...

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. Wisdom is better than weapons of war - So proved in the case of Archimed...

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. One sinner ... - as Achan ( Joshua 7:1 ; Joshua 7:11-12 ). Though...

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Live Worthily While You May 1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die.

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

One sinner, etc.] One man's evil deed may bring to nought wide-reaching purposes of good.

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nor in Devotion to Affairs and its Rewards. Ecclesiastes 9:13-18 ; Ecclesiastes 10:1-20 So far, then, Coheleth has been occupied in retracing...

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In view of the evidences of the truth of the affirmation, "vanity... all is vanity," the preacher now turns to its effect on the mind of the man livi...

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. (17) The words of wise men...

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS READER! amidst many blessed meditations, which this chapter leads to, let us seek for grace from God the Spirit to derive improvements f...

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE SAVIOUR OF THE CITY ‘There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great...

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war ,.... And does what they cannot do; of which the wisdom of the poor wise man is a full proof, which delivered...

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. Ver. 18. Wisdom is better than weapons of war. ] As David found it...

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Advantages of Wisdom.       13 This wisdom have I seen also under the s...

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Than weapons of war; than armed power. Sinner; a wicked fool; by which expression and opposition of a sinner to a wise man he gives us a key to u...

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 9 The Same Things Happen to All Whether They Be Righteous, Wise Or Sons of Men. And In The End All Die In The Same Way. So Let The Righteous...

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 9:13 . This wisdom.] The special instance of the power of wisdom related in the next verse. Ecclesiastes 9:14 ....

Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 8:16-10 I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth points out that it is impossible for us to construct a...

Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 9:14-18 I. The little city. At first sight it may seem rather paradoxical to compare this great world of ours, with its almost innume...

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 9:5 . The dead know not any thing. This is explained by the next phrase, the memory of them is forgotten. Elijah went up to heaven,...

The Biblical Illustrator

There was a little city, and few men within it. The little city and the poor wise man The little city, as first introduced to our notice, is in...

The Biblical Illustrator

The words of wise men are heard in quiet. The superiority of moral to military force “The words of wise men are heard in quiet”: words of thoug...

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 9:1-21 One fate happens to all, and the dead are cut off from all the feelings and interests of life in the upper w...

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wisdom Still to be Sought

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, it is more desirable than the greatest physical and martial strength; but one sinner, placing himself in oppo...