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Text -- Ecclesiastes 5:14 (NET)

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5:14 Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Ecc 5:14 - -- By some wicked practices, either his own, or of other men.

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

Wesley: Ecc 5:14 - -- In the son's possession after his father's death.

In the son's possession after his father's death.

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 - -- 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 - -- 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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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Ecc 5:14 - -- Evil travail - Adverse accident, or unsuccessful employment (compare Ecc 1:13; Ecc 4:8).

Evil travail - Adverse accident, or unsuccessful employment (compare Ecc 1:13; Ecc 4:8).

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 - -- 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 - -- 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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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Ecc 5:14 Heb “there is nothing in his hand.”

Geneva Bible: Ecc 5:14 But those riches perish by evil labour: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his ( l ) hand. ( l ) He does not enjoy his father's riches...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

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 - --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 - -- 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 - -- "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...

Constable: Ecc 5:14-18 - --The effect of misfortune 5:13-17 The Hebrew expression translated "bad investment" (v. 1...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Ecclesiastes (Book Introduction) The Hebrew title is Koheleth, which the speaker in it applies to himself (Ecc 1:12), "I, Koheleth, was king over Israel." It means an Assembler or Con...

JFB: Ecclesiastes (Outline) INTRODUCTION. (Ecc. 1:1-18)

TSK: Ecclesiastes 5 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Ecc 5:1, Vanities in divine service; Ecc 5:8, in murmuring against oppression; Ecc 5:9, and in riches; Ecc 5:18, Joy in riches is the gif...

Poole: Ecclesiastes 5 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 5 Vanities in divine matters, Ecc 5:1-7 . In murmuring and repining, Ecc 5:8 . In riches and covetousness. Ecc 5:9,10 ; for riches rob men ...

MHCC: Ecclesiastes (Book Introduction) The name of this book signifies " The Preacher." The wisdom of God here preaches to us, speaking by Solomon, who it is evident was the author. At the...

MHCC: Ecclesiastes 5 (Chapter Introduction) (Ecc 5:1-3) What renders devotion vain. (Ecc 5:4-8) Of vows, and oppression. (Ecc 5:9-17) The vanity of riches shown. (Ecc 5:18-20) The right use o...

Matthew Henry: Ecclesiastes (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Ecclesiastes We are still among Solomon's happy men, his happy servants, that stood contin...

Matthew Henry: Ecclesiastes 5 (Chapter Introduction) Solomon, in this chapter, discourses, I. Concerning the worship of God, prescribing that as a remedy against all those vanities which he had alrea...

Constable: Ecclesiastes (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew text is all of verse 1. The Se...

Constable: Ecclesiastes (Outline)

Constable: Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes Bibliography Archer, Gleason L., Jr. "The Linguistic Evidence for the Date of Ecclesiastes'." Jour...

Haydock: Ecclesiastes (Book Introduction) ECCLESIASTES. INTRODUCTION. This Book is called Ecclesiastes, or the preacher, (in Hebrew, Coheleth ) because in it Solomon, as an excelle...

Gill: Ecclesiastes (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES This book has been universally received into the canon of the Scriptures, by Jews and Christians. The former, indeed, ...

Gill: Ecclesiastes 5 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES 5 This chapter contains some rules and directions concerning the worship of God; how persons should behave when they g...

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