Ecclesiastes 4
1 Vanity is increased unto men by oppression;4 by envy;5 by idleness;7 by covetousness;9 by solitariness;13 by wilfulness. I returned.Job 6:29; Mal 3:18and considered.3:16; 5:8; 7:7; Ex 1:13,14,16,22; 2:23,24; 5:16-19; De 28:33,48Jud 4:3; 10:7,8; Ne 5:1-5; Job 24:7-12; Ps 10:9,10; Pr 28:3,15,16Isa 5:7; 51:23; 59:7,13-15; Mal 3:5the tears.Ps 42:3,9; 80:5; 102:8,9; Mal 2:13; Jas 5:4they had.Job 16:4; 19:21,22; Ps 69:20; 142:4; Pr 19:7; La 1:2,9; Mt 26:562Ti 4:16,17side. Heb. hand. 2:17; 9:4-6; Job 3:17-21 better.6:3-5; Job 3:10-16; 10:18,19; Jer 20:17,18; Mt 24:19; Lu 23:29who.1:14; 2:17; Ps 55:6-11; Jer 9:2,3 every, etc. Heb. all the rightness of work, that this is theenvy of man from his neighbour. Ge 4:4-8; 37:2-11; 1Sa 18:8,9,14-16,29,30; Pr 27:4; Mt 27:18Ac 7:9; Jas 4:5; 1Jo 3:12This is.16; 1:14; 2:21,26; 6:9,11; Ge 37:4,11 fool.Pr 6:10,11; 12:27; 13:4; 20:4; 24:33,34eateth.That is, with envy, (see ver. 4,) though too idle to follow his neighbour's example. Job 13:14; Pr 11:17; Isa 9:20 Ps 37:16; Pr 15:16,17; 16:8; 17:1 1; Ps 78:33; Zec 1:6 one.9-12; Ge 2:18; Isa 56:3-5he hath.Ge 15:2,3no.Isa 5:8is his.1:8; 5:10; Pr 27:20; Hab 2:5-9; 1Jo 2:16For.Ps 39:6; Isa 44:19,20; Lu 12:20it is.1:13; 2:23; Isa 55:2; Mt 11:28 are.Ge 2:18; Ex 4:14-16; Nu 11:14; Pr 27:17; Hag 1:14; Mr 6:7; Ac 13:2Ac 15:39,40; 1Co 12:18-21a good.Ru 2:12; Joh 4:36; 2Jo 1:8 if.Ex 32:2-4,21; De 9:19,20; 1Sa 23:16; 2Sa 11:27; 12:7-14; Job 4:3,4Isa 35:3,4; Lu 22:31,32; Ga 2:11-14; 6:1; 1Th 4:18; 5:11but.Ge 4:8; 2Sa 14:6 1Ki 1:1,2 And if.This is well illustrated by the fable of the dying father, who, to shew his sons the advantages of union, gave them a bundle of twigs, which could not be broken when bound together, but were easily snapped asunder one by one. and a.2Sa 23:9,16,18,19,23; Da 3:16,17; Eph 4:3 is a poor.9:15,16; Ge 37:2; Pr 19:1; 28:6,15,16will no more be. Heb. knoweth not to be.1Ki 22:8; 2Ch 16:9,10; 24:20-22; 25:16 For out.This is probably an allusion to some fact with which we are unacquainted. History furnishes many instances of mean persons raised to sovereign authority, and of kings being reduced to the meanest offices, and to a morsel. Agrippa mounted the throne of Israel after having been long in prison; and similar instances are not wanting in modern times. Ge 41:14,33-44; Job 5:11; Ps 113:7,8also.1Ki 14:26,27; 2Ki 23:31-34; 24:1,2,6,12; 25:7,27-30; La 4:20Da 4:31 child.2Sa 15:6 no end.2Sa 15:12,13; 1Ki 1:5-7,40; 12:10-16they also.Jud 9:19,20; 2Sa 18:7,8; 19:9this.1:14; 2:11,17,26
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