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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:11-22

The Importance of Practical Wisdom (Ecclesiastes 7:11-22 ). Wisdom As A Defence (Ecclesiastes 7:11-12 ). Having wisdom is a good foundation for life, for it provides a form of defence in times of trouble, and may even result in preserving a man’s life. Ecclesiastes 7:11-12 ‘Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yes, more excellent is it for those who see the sun. For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence. But the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:13-14

But Wisdom Includes A Recognition That We Cannot Interfere With God’s Doings. Thus We Must Accept From God What He Is Pleased To Give (Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 ). Ecclesiastes 7:13 ‘Consider the work of God. For who can make that straight which he has made crooked?’ In Ecclesiastes 3:13 the work of God was that which has been done from the beginning even to the end, which man cannot fathom. Compare Ecclesiastes 8:17 where we were assured that no man can find out the work of God, whether wise or... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Ecclesiastes 7:1-Song of Solomon : . Proverbs and Reflections.— After asking, “ What is good for man in life?” ( Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisable for him to cultivate seriousness rather than levity ( Ecclesiastes 7:1-Judges :). The curious remark that “ a (good) name is better than precious ointment” ( cf. Ca. Ecclesiastes 1:3 *) is in the Heb. a play on the words shem and shemen; ointment is... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:14

Be joyful; enjoy God’s favours with cheerfulness and thankfulness. Consider, to wit, God’s work, which is easily understood out of the foregoing verse. Consider that it is God’s hand, and therefore submit to it; humble thyself under his hand, be sensible of it, and duly affected with it; consider also why God sends it, for what sins, and with what design. This is a proper season for serious consideration, whereas prosperity relaxeth the mind, and calls it forth to outward things. But this... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:8-14

CRITICAL NOTES.—Ecclesiastes 7:11. Wisdom is good with an inheritance] Wisdom, though good in itself, yet when joined with ample means imparts a power of doing good to others. Ecclesiastes 7:12. Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence] Lit., in the shadow of wisdom, etc. In countries where the heat was oppressive, a shadow would be the natural symbol of protection. The excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it] Both wisdom and money give a man superior... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:1-18

Ecclesiastes 5:8-7:18 I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superintendence of human affairs. This belief Koheleth now proceeds to justify. (1) Do not be alarmed, he says, when you see the injustice of oppressors. There are limits beyond which this injustice cannot go. God is the Author of this system of restriction and punishment. (2) The Divine government may be seen in the law of compensation. Pleasure does not... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Ecclesiastes 7:0 and Ecclesiastes 8:1-15 I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities He has given us and the opportunities He sends us. Nevertheless we may pursue this right end from a wrong motive, in a wrong spirit. Both spirit and motive are wrong if we pursue our competence as though it were a good so great that we can know no happy content and rest unless we attain it. For what is it that... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:14

Ecclesiastes 7:14 The wise Preacher is speaking here of the right use of the changeful phenomena and conditions of man's life on earth. God sets prosperity over against adversity, and He does this that man should find nothing after Him; that is, that the future should remain hid from man, so that he can at no time count upon it, but must ever wait upon God, the supreme Disposer of all things, and trust in Him alone. The principle here involved pervades the Divine administration, and receives... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again, it is important that we make note of the fact that the book of Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon in his later years. After he had assiduously pursued to find the purpose and meaning of life in so many different things: in wisdom, in wealth, in fame, in building, in pleasures. And after his pursuit, which carried him into every area and experience of life,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Ecclesiastes 7:1 . A good name is better than precious ointment. Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48:0. Wisdom and virtue outlive the apothecary’s arts. Ecclesiastes 7:2 . It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting. Both families and nations have, by affliction, come to their right mind, like the Prodigal. Ecclesiastes 7:8 . Better is the end of a thing, or of a beclouded... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:11-22

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:13-14

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes 7:14

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:8-14

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:1-18

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:14

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 7:1-29

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