
Text -- Ecclesiastes 5:14 (NET)




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By some wicked practices, either his own, or of other men.

In the son's possession after his father's death.
JFB -> Ecc 5:13-14
JFB: Ecc 5:13-14 - -- Proofs of God's judgments even in this world (Pro 11:31). The rich oppressor's wealth provokes enemies, robbers, &c. Then, after having kept it for an...
Proofs of God's judgments even in this world (Pro 11:31). The rich oppressor's wealth provokes enemies, robbers, &c. Then, after having kept it for an expected son, he loses it beforehand by misfortune ("by evil travail"), and the son is born to be heir of poverty. Ecc 2:19, Ecc 2:23 gives another aspect of the same subject.
Clarke -> Ecc 5:14
Clarke: Ecc 5:14 - -- And he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand - He has been stripped of his property by unfortunate trade or by plunderers; and he has no...
And he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand - He has been stripped of his property by unfortunate trade or by plunderers; and he has nothing to leave to his children.
TSK -> Ecc 5:14
TSK: Ecc 5:14 - -- those : Ecc 2:26; Job 5:5, Job 20:15-29, Job 27:16, Job 27:17; Psa 39:6; Pro 23:5; Hag 1:9; Hag 2:16, Hag 2:17; Mat 6:19, Mat 6:20
and he : 1Sa 2:6-8,...

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Barnes -> Ecc 5:14
Poole -> Ecc 5:14
Poole: Ecc 5:14 - -- But or for , or or , or moreover ; for this particle is so rendered by divers others, both here and in other places of Scripture.
Those riches pe...
But or for , or or , or moreover ; for this particle is so rendered by divers others, both here and in other places of Scripture.
Those riches perish: if they be kept, it is to the owner’ s hurt; and if not, they are lost to his grief.
By evil travail by some wicked practices, either his own, or of other men; or by some secret hand of God cursing all his enterprises.
There is nothing in his hand either,
1. In the father’ s power to leave to his son, for whose sake he underwent all those hard labours; which is a great aggravation of his grief and misery. Or,
2. In the son’ s possession after his father’ s death.
Haydock -> Ecc 5:14
Haydock: Ecc 5:14 - -- Labour. All must die in this manner. But it is most afflicting that he was formerly rich, and must leave his son indigent. (Calmet)
Labour. All must die in this manner. But it is most afflicting that he was formerly rich, and must leave his son indigent. (Calmet)
Gill -> Ecc 5:14
Gill: Ecc 5:14 - -- But those riches perish by evil travail,.... Or, "by an evil business or affair" n. That is, such riches as are not well got, or are not used as they ...
But those riches perish by evil travail,.... Or, "by an evil business or affair" n. That is, such riches as are not well got, or are not used as they should be, these waste away and come to nothing; either by the owner's bad management, and misconduct in trade and business; or by fire, tempest, thieves, and robbers, and many other ways and means: these are very certain things; and there are various ways by which they make themselves wings and flee away, under the direction of a divine providence;
and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand; the riches he had hoarded up, he designed for his son; but being stripped of them by one means or another, when he comes to die, has nothing to leave his son: or if his riches do not perish in his own lifetime, yet they are quickly consumed by his son, who, in a short time, has nothing to live upon; and so being brought up a gentleman, and in no business, is in a worse condition than such who have been brought up to work for their living, and in no expectation of an estate after the decease of their friends. The Targum understands it in this latter sense, paraphrasing the words thus,
"and those riches, which he shall leave his son after his death, shall perish, because he hath gotten them in an evil way; and they shall not remain in the hand of the son whom he hath begotten; neither shall anything remain in his hand.''

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TSK Synopsis -> Ecc 5:1-20
TSK Synopsis: Ecc 5:1-20 - --1 Vanities in divine service;8 in murmuring against oppression;9 and in riches.18 Joy in riches is the gift of God.
MHCC -> Ecc 5:9-17
MHCC: Ecc 5:9-17 - --The goodness of Providence is more equally distributed than appears to a careless observer. The king needs the common things of life, and the poor sha...
Matthew Henry -> Ecc 5:9-17
Matthew Henry: Ecc 5:9-17 - -- Solomon had shown the vanity of pleasure, gaiety, and fine works, of honour, power, and royal dignity; and there is many a covetous worldling that w...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Ecc 5:13-14
Keil-Delitzsch: Ecc 5:13-14 - --
"There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, riches kept by their possessor to his hurt: the same riches perish by an evil event; and he h...
Constable: Ecc 2:18--6:10 - --B. General Observations 2:18-6:9
Thus far Solomon had reflected on the futility of all human endeavor ge...

Constable: Ecc 5:1--6:10 - --4. The perishable fruits of labor 5:1-6:9
This section emphasizes the folly of trying to find ul...
