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Text -- Ecclesiastes 6:6 (NET)

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6:6 if he should live a thousand years twice, yet does not enjoy his prosperity. For both of them die!
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Wesley: Ecc 6:6 - -- Wherein he seems to have a privilege above an untimely birth.

Wherein he seems to have a privilege above an untimely birth.

Wesley: Ecc 6:6 - -- He hath enjoyed no comfort in it, and therefore long life is rather a curse, than a blessing to him.

He hath enjoyed no comfort in it, and therefore long life is rather a curse, than a blessing to him.

Wesley: Ecc 6:6 - -- Whether their lives be long or short.

Whether their lives be long or short.

Wesley: Ecc 6:6 - -- To the grave.

To the grave.

JFB: Ecc 6:6 - -- If the miser's length of "life" be thought to raise him above the abortive, Solomon answers that long life, without enjoying real good, is but lengthe...

If the miser's length of "life" be thought to raise him above the abortive, Solomon answers that long life, without enjoying real good, is but lengthened misery, and riches cannot exempt him from going whither "all go." He is fit neither for life, nor death, nor eternity.

TSK: Ecc 6:6 - -- though : Gen 5:5, Gen 5:23, Gen 5:24; Isa 65:22 yet : Ecc 6:3; Job 7:7; Psa 4:6, Psa 4:7, Psa 34:12; Isa 65:20; Jer 17:6 do : Ecc 3:20, Ecc 12:7; Job ...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Ecc 6:6 - -- He live - Rather, he hath lived. "He"refers to the man Ecc 6:3. His want of satisfaction in life, and the dishonor done to his corpse, are rega...

He live - Rather, he hath lived. "He"refers to the man Ecc 6:3. His want of satisfaction in life, and the dishonor done to his corpse, are regarded as such great evils that they counterbalance his numerous children, and length of days, and render his lot viewed as a whole no better than the common lot of all.

Poole: Ecc 6:6 - -- Live a thousand years twice told wherein he seems to have a privilege above an untimely birth. Hath he seen no good ; he hath enjoyed little or no c...

Live a thousand years twice told wherein he seems to have a privilege above an untimely birth. Hath he seen no good ; he hath enjoyed little or no comfort in it, and therefore long life is rather a curse and mischief than a blessing or advantage to him.

Do not all whether born out of and before their time, or in due time, whether their lives be long or short,

go to one place to the grave. And so after a little time all are alike as to this life, of which he here speaks; and as to the other life, his condition is infinitely worse than that of an untimely birth.

Gill: Ecc 6:6 - -- Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told,.... Or two thousand years, which no man ever did, nor even one thousand years; Methuselah, the oldes...

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told,.... Or two thousand years, which no man ever did, nor even one thousand years; Methuselah, the oldest man, did not live so long as that; this is than twice the age of the oldest man: there is one sort of the Ethiopians, who are said a to live almost half space of time longer than usual, called from thence Macrobii; which Pliny b makes to be one hundred and forty years, which is just double the common term of life. This here is only a supposition. Aben Ezra interprets it, "a thousand thousand", but wrongly; so the Arabic version, "though he lives many thousand years";

yet hath he seen no good, not enjoyed the good of his labour, what he has been labouring for and was possessed of; and therefore has lived so long as he has to very little purpose, and with very little comfort or credit; and especially he has had no experience of spiritual good;

do not all go to one place? that is, the grave; they do, even all men; it is the house appointed for all living, Job 30:23; and hither go both the abortive, and the covetous rich man; so that he has in this no pre-eminence to it. Jarchi interprets it of hell, the one place, whither all sinners go; but the former sense is best.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Ecc 6:6 Heb “Do not all go to the same place?” The rhetorical question is an example of erotesis of positive affirmation, expecting a positive ans...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Ecc 6:1-12 - --1 The vanity of riches without use;3 though a man have many children and a long life.7 The vanity of sight and wandering desires.10 The conclusion of ...

MHCC: Ecc 6:1-6 - --A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no good or comforta...

Matthew Henry: Ecc 6:1-6 - -- Solomon had shown, in the close of the foregoing chapter, how good it is to make a comfortable use of the gifts of God's providence; now here he sho...

Keil-Delitzsch: Ecc 6:6 - -- A life extending to more than even a thousand years without enjoyment appears to him worthless: "And if he has lived twice a thousand years long, an...

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 5:18--6:10 - --The way to enjoy the fruits of one's labor 5:18-6:9 Again Solomon urged the enjoyment of...

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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 6 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Ecc 6:1, The vanity of riches without use; Ecc 6:3, though a man have many children and a long life; Ecc 6:7, The vanity of sight and wan...

Poole: Ecclesiastes 6 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 6 The vanity of riches without use, Ecc 6:1,2 . Of children and old age without competent wealth; their obscurity is worse than not to have...

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 6 (Chapter Introduction) (Ecc 6:1-6) The vanity of riches. Also of long life and flourishing families. (Ecc 6:7-12) The little advantage any one has in outward things.

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 6 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter, I. The royal preacher goes on further to show the vanity of worldly wealth, when men place their happiness in it and are eager an...

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 6 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES 6 The wise man goes on to expose the vanity of riches, as possessed by a covetous man, who makes no use of them; an ev...

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