Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “evil” of Ecclesiastes 10:5 is here specified as that caprice of a king by which an unworthy favorite of low origin is promoted to successive...

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 9:17 to Ecclesiastes 10:15 . Experience Crystallised in Proverbs. Ecclesiastes 9:17 to Ecclesiastes 10:3 forms a series of pr...

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

horses. No evidence of. late origin of this book, for we read of them in 1 Kings 4:26 1 Kings 4:28 . 1 Kings 10:26 ; 1 Kings 10:28 . 1Ki 22:4....

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I have seen servants upon horses, &c.— From the fifth to this verse we have the third instance. Princes, whose character depends upon the beh...

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Practical Advice Touching Life's Puzzles 1-8. Cultivate wisdom and tact, specially in the dangers that attend upon courts, but also in ordinary op...

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Considering that the importation of horses was a new thing in the reign of Solomon, we look on it as a mark of later age that a noble should think hi...

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

FOURTH SECTION The Quest Achieved. The Chief Good Is To Be Found, Not In Wisdom, Nor In Pleasure, Nor In Devotion To Affairs And Its Rewards; But...

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

How, then, does worldly wisdom work? The preacher shows that its first manifestation is discretion based upon selfishness. This section is a series o...

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. There is no doubt great inequality in common life: and not unfrequ...

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I have seen servants upon horses ,.... Which being scarce in Judea, were only rode upon by princes and great personages, or such as were in affluent...

John Trapp Complete Commentary

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. Ver. 7. I have seen servants upon horses, ] i.e., Servile sou...

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

There is an evil , &c. I have observed another great vanity and misdemeanour among men; as an error which proceedeth , &c. Or rather, as th...

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mutual Duties of Princes and Subjects.       4 If the spirit of the ruler r...

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Servants; men of a servile condition and disposition, who are altogether unfit for places of dignity. Upon horses; riding upon horses, as a badge...

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Behaviour Connected With Superiors ( Ecclesiastes 10:4-7 ). Ecclesiastes 10:4 ‘If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, do not leave you...

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 10:5 . As an error which proceedeth from the ruler.] Not a mere error, as such, but one which is manifest by its co...

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 8:16-12 I. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his last course. (1)...

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 10:1 . Dead flies cause the ointment, of exquisite perfumes, to send forth a stinking savour; a satirical proverb, applicable to ch...

The Biblical Illustrator

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. A social scene in human life I. This social scene is common....

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 10:1-21 Section 11. A little folly mars the effect of wisdom, and is sure to make itself conspicuous. Ecclesia...

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In the Midst of Presumption and Arrogance

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I have seen servants, men whose station in life was among the lowly, upon horses, like mighty lords, and princes, men qualified for the highest p...

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:10 ; Proverbs 30:22