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Écclésiaste 5:17
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Il mange aussi tous les jours de sa vie en ténèbres, et se chagrine beaucoup, et son mal va jusqu'à la fureur.
Il mange aussi, tous les jours de sa vie, dans les ténèbres, et il a beaucoup de chagrin, de maux et d'irritation.
Il mange aussi tous les jours de sa vie dans les ténèbres et se chagrine beaucoup, et est malade et irrité.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he eateth: Genesis 3:17, 1 Kings 17:12, Job 21:25, Psalms 78:33, Psalms 102:9, Psalms 127:2, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17
much: 2 Kings 1:2, 2 Kings 1:6, 2 Kings 5:27, 2 Chronicles 16:10-12, 2 Chronicles 24:24, 2 Chronicles 24:25, Psalms 90:7-11, Proverbs 1:27-29, Acts 12:23, 1 Corinthians 11:30-32
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:9 - be silent Psalms 13:2 - sorrow Ecclesiastes 2:22 - hath man Ecclesiastes 6:3 - so Ecclesiastes 7:15 - have I
Gill's Notes on the Bible
All his days also he eateth in darkness,.... To all that has been said is added another evil, that attends such whose hearts are inordinately set on riches; that all their days, throughout the whole of their lives, they live a most uncomfortable life; for eating is here put for their whole manner of living: such not only eat coarse bread, and very mean food of any sort, but wear sordid apparel, and live in a poor cottage, in a very obscure and miserable manner. Aben Ezra understands it literally of the night, to which time such a man defers eating, that he might lose no time in his labour; and that it might not be seen what sort of food he eats, and how sparingly, and that others might not eat with him; and what he does eat is not eaten freely, but grudgingly, and with anguish and distress of mind, without any real pleasure and joy; and much less with the light of God's countenance, the discoveries of his love, and communion with him: the Targum is,
"all his days he dwelleth in darkness, that he may taste his bread alone;''
and [he hath], much sorrow and wrath with his sickness; either the sickness of his mind, his covetousness; or the sickness of his body, emaciated by withholding from himself the necessaries of life: or when he comes upon a sick bed, he is filled with sorrow and indignation, that he must live no longer, to accumulate more wealth, and accomplish his projects and designs; and that he must leave his wealth, he has been at so much pains to gather together. Or, "and he is much angry" o; when things do not answer in trade according to his wishes; when his substance diminishes, or, however, does not increase as he desires; when he is cheated by fraudulent men, or robbed by thieves: "and he hath sickness" p; either of body or mind, or both, because matters do not succeed as he would have them; and through fretfulness at losses and crosses, and disappointments; and through cares in getting and keeping what he has: "and wrath"; at all about him, whom he is ready to charge with slothfulness or unfaithfulness to him; and even at the providence of God, that does not give him the desired success; so that he has no manner of pleasure and comfort in life.
o וכעס הרבה "et irascitur multum", Vatablus, Drusius; "et indignatus fuit, vel indignatur multum", Piscator, Rambachius. p וחליו "et agritudo ei fuit, vel est", Piscator, Drusius; "vel fuerit", Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hath much sorrow ... - Rather, is very sad and hath pain and vexation.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 17. All his days also he eateth in darkness — Even his enjoyments are embittered by uncertainty. He fears for his goods; the possibility of being deprived of them fills his heart with anguish. But instead of ×™×כל yochel, "he shall eat," ילך yelech, "he shall walk," is the reading of several MSS. He walks in darkness - he has no evidence of salvation. There is no ray of light from God to penetrate the gloom; and all beyond life is darkness impenetrable!
And wrath with his sickness. — His last hours are awful; for,
"Counting on long years of pleasure here,
He's quite unfurnish'd for the world to come."
BLAIR.
He is full of anguish at the thought of death; but the fear of it is horrible. But if he have a sense of God's wrath in his guilty conscience, what horror can be compared with his horror!
