Écclésiaste 5:20

Louis Segond

Car il ne se souviendra pas beaucoup des jours de sa vie, parce que Dieu répand la joie dans son coeur.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Car il ne se souviendra pas beaucoup des jours de sa vie, parce que Dieu lui répond par la joie de son cœur.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Car il ne se souviendra pas beaucoup des jours de sa vie, parce que Dieu lui répond par la joie de son cœur.

Darby's French Translation
car il ne se souviendra pas beaucoup des jours de sa vie; car Dieu lui a donné une réponse dans la joie de son coeur.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For he shall not much remember: or, Though he give not much, yet he rembemereth, etc. Psalms 37:16

because: Deuteronomy 28:8-12, Deuteronomy 28:47, Psalms 4:6, Psalms 4:7, Isaiah 64:5, Isaiah 65:13, Isaiah 65:14, Isaiah 65:21-24, Romans 5:1, Romans 5:5-11

Reciprocal: Job 11:16 - Because

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he shall not much remember the days of his life,.... Be they more or fewer, as Jarchi: he will not think life long and tedious; nor dwell upon, and distress himself with, the troubles he has met with, or is likely to meet with; but, being content with the good things God has given him, and freely and cheerfully enjoying them, he passes away his time delightfully and pleasantly. Some, as Aben Ezra observes, and which he approves of, and is agreeably to the accents, render the words, "if he [has] not much, he remembers the days of his life" t; if he has but little of the good things of this life, he remembers how few his days are he has to live; and doubts not he shall have enough to carry him to the end of his days, and therefore is quite easy and content; he calls to mind how he has been supplied all his days hitherto, and is persuaded that that God, who has provided for him, will continue his goodness to him, and that he shall not want any good thing; and therefore does not distress himself with what is to come;

because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart; he calls upon God for a blessing on his labours, asks of him his daily food, and desires what may be proper and sufficient for him, or what he judges is necessary and convenient; and God answers his prayers and petitions, and good wishes, by filling his heart with food and gladness; and giving him that cheerfulness of spirit, and thankfulness of heart, in the enjoyment of every blessing; and especially if along with it he lifts up the light of his countenance, and grants him joy in the Holy Ghost; he will go on so pleasantly and comfortably as to forget all his former troubles; and it will dissipate his doubts and fears about how he shall live for the future.

t כי לא הרבה יזכר "quod si non multum recordabitur dierum vitae suae", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The days will pass smoothly and pleasantly, while he lives in the consciousness of God’s favor.

Answereth him - i. e., grants his prayers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 5:20. For he shall not much remember — The person who acts in this way, extracts all the good requisite from life. He passes through things temporal so as not to lose those that are eternal: -

"Calm and serene, the road of life to him,

Or long or short, rugged or smooth, with thorns

O'erspread, or gay with flowers, is but a road.

Such fare as offers grateful he accepts,

And smiling to his native home proceeds."

C.