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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 9:1-18

Chapter 9 The Same Things Happen to All Whether They Be Righteous, Wise Or Sons of Men. And In The End All Die In The Same Way. So Let The Righteous Live Life As They May And Enjoy It For God Has Accepted All That They Do. But Let Them Not Look For Anything Beyond. After seeming to be making progress through an examination of religious experience The Speaker now turns to consider what difference there is between the overall treatment of the righteous and the wicked while on earth, and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 9:11-12

Things Do Not Always Go As We Expect (Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 ). His first lesson is that men do not necessarily succeed because of their advantages and their abilities, because in the end success is largely a matter of chance Ecclesiastes 9:11 ‘I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men with business acumen, nor yet favour to men of skill. But time and chance happens to them all.’ Things do... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 9:11-18

Sayings About the Wise (Ecclesiastes 9:11 to Ecclesiastes 10:12 ). His philosophy having come up with the fact that all a man has to look forward to is the life just described, the Preacher now recognises that he is a wise man and must therefore give some advice on living that life. Thus he proceeds to enunciate his wisdom. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 9:1-16

Ecclesiastes 8:16 to Ecclesiastes 9:16 . Life’ s Riddle Baffles the Wisest Quest.— The parenthesis in Ecclesiastes 8:16 b describes the ceaseless effort of the keen student of life, or perhaps the fate of the toiler who is too tired to sleep; with Ecclesiastes 8:17; cf. Ecclesiastes 7:24, Job 11:6-1 Samuel :, and from the Christian standpoint Romans 11:33, Ephesians 3:8 (“ unsearchable riches” ). By heart ( Ecclesiastes 9:1) is meant the whole inner nature, intellectual and emotional; God is... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes 9:11

I returned, and saw: this may have some respect to the foregoing verse; for having pressed men to labour with all their might, he now adds, by way of caution, that yet they must not be confident of their own strength, as if they were sure of success by it, but in all, above all, to look up to God for his blessing, without which all their endeavours will be in vain. But it seems chiefly to be added, either, 1. As another instance of the liberty and power of God’s providence in the disposal of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ecclesiastes 9:11-12

CRITICAL NOTES.—Ecclesiastes 9:12. Knoweth not his time.] He knows not the hour of his destruction, when he shall be suddenly snared and taken by death. This solemn crisis in man’s destiny is called in Scripture the “day” (Job 18:20), the “hour” (Mark 14:41). As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare. The net, trap, and snare are symbols of those divine judgments which suddenly overtake men (Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 32:3; Proverbs 7:23; Luke... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 9:1-18

Ecclesiastes 8:16-12:7 I. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his last course. (1) His first conclusion is that wisdom, which of all temporal goods still stands foremost with him, is incapable of yielding a true content. Much as it can do for man, it cannot solve the moral problems which daily task and afflict his heart, the problems which he must solve before he can be at peace (8:16-9:6). (2) He reviews the pretensions of Wisdom... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 9:11

Ecclesiastes 9:11 I. Life reigns in all the worlds, however powerful the hindrances to life at times may be. The real work of the world is not done by the swift or the strong, but by the multitudinous, universal push of humble, irrepressible life. Light and sunbeams, and rain and dews, call gently to the hidden life; and life, shy and tender, peeps forth at the call, and comes out conquering and irresistible, clothing with grass a thousand hills, making hill and plain alike to live. "The race... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 9:1-18

Chapter 9For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them. All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that fears an oath. This is an... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 9:1-18

Ecclesiastes 9:5 . The dead know not any thing. This is explained by the next phrase, the memory of them is forgotten. Elijah went up to heaven, or paradise, as the Jews will have it. John 3:13. Similar are the words of a prophet: “Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us.” The Jews understood that Abraham gathered into his bosom the souls of his children. The soul of a good man returns to God, and enjoys the happiness of separate spirits. REFLECTIONS. Solomon here... read more