Pengkhotbah 4:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dan aku melihat bahwa segala jerih payah dan segala kecakapan dalam pekerjaan adalah iri hati seseorang terhadap yang lain. Inipun kesia-siaan dan usaha menjaring angin.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan aku melihat bahwa segala jerih payah dan segala kecakapan dalam pekerjaan adalah iri hati seseorang terhadap yang lain. Inipun kesia-siaan dan usaha menjaring angin.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Agayne, I sawe that all trauayle and diligence of labour that euery man taketh in hande, was done of enuie agaynst his neighbour: This is also a vayne thyng, and a vexation of mynde. ⁵ The foole foldeth his handes together, and eateth vp his owne fleshe. ⁶ One handfull [saith he] is better with rest, then both the handes full with labour and trauayle of mynde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

every: etc. Heb. all the rightness of work, that this is the envy of man from his neighbour, Genesis 4:4-8, Genesis 37:2-11, 1 Samuel 18:8, 1 Samuel 18:9, 1 Samuel 18:14-16, 1 Samuel 18:29, 1 Samuel 18:30, Proverbs 27:4, Matthew 27:18, Acts 7:9, James 4:5, 1 John 3:12

This is: Ecclesiastes 4:16, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Ecclesiastes 2:21, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Ecclesiastes 6:9, Ecclesiastes 6:11, Genesis 37:4, Genesis 37:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 26:14 - envied Genesis 30:1 - Rachel envied Genesis 31:1 - Jacob Exodus 1:9 - the people Judges 8:1 - the men Judges 12:1 - Wherefore 1 Samuel 17:28 - Eliab's anger Nehemiah 6:2 - Come Ecclesiastes 1:2 - General Ecclesiastes 1:13 - this sore Ecclesiastes 4:5 - eateth Ecclesiastes 5:10 - this Ecclesiastes 6:2 - vanity Ecclesiastes 8:14 - a vanity Ecclesiastes 9:11 - returned Ecclesiastes 12:8 - General Jeremiah 2:13 - broken cisterns Ezekiel 31:9 - envied Daniel 3:12 - certain Daniel 6:4 - sought Matthew 26:8 - they Mark 14:4 - there Mark 15:10 - for envy John 3:26 - he that John 10:32 - for John 12:4 - one Acts 5:17 - indignation Acts 13:45 - they

Cross-References

Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lorde, & dwelt in the lande of Nod, eastwarde from Eden.

Genesis 4:17
Cain also knewe his wyfe, whiche conceaued and bare Henoch, and buyldyng a citie, he called the name of the same citie after the name of his sonne Henoch.

Genesis 4:19
And Lamech toke vnto hym two wyues, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other was Sella.

Genesis 4:20
And Ada bare Iabel, which was the father of such as dwel in the tentes, and of such as haue cattell.

Genesis 15:17
And so it was, that when the sonne went downe, and it was twylyght, beholde a smokyng furnesse and a fire brande goyng betweene the said peeces.

Exodus 13:12
And then thou shalt appoynt vnto the Lorde all that openeth the matrice, and euery firstlyng that commeth of a beast which thou hast, yf it be a male, it shalbe the Lordes.

Leviticus 9:24
And there came a fire out from before the Lorde, and consumed vpon the aulter the burnt offering & the fat: Whiche when all the people sawe, they gaue thankes, and fell on their faces.

Numbers 16:35
And there came out a fire from the Lorde, and consumed the two hundred and fiftie men that offered incense.

Numbers 18:12
Al the fat of the oyle, & al the fat of the wine, & of the wheate, which they shall offer vnto the Lorde for first fruites, the same haue I geuen vnto thee.

Numbers 18:17
But the first borne of a cowe, sheepe, & goate, shalt thou not redeeme, for they are holy: therfore thou shalt sprinckle their blood vpon the aulter, and shalt burne their fat as a sacrifice made by fire, for a sweete sauour vnto the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Again I considered all travail, and every right work,.... The pains that men take to do right works. Some apply themselves, with great diligence and industry, to the study of the liberal arts and sciences; and to attain the knowledge of languages; and to writing books, for the improvement of those things, and the good of mankind: and others employ themselves in mechanic arts, and excel in them, and bring their works to great perfection and accuracy; when they might expect to be praised and commended, and have thanks given them by men. But instead thereof, so it is,

that for this a man is envied of his neighbour; who will be sure to find fault with what he has done, speak contemptibly of him and his work, and traduce him among men. This is also true of moral works; which are right, when done from a right principle, from love to God, in faith, and with a view to the glory of God; and which when done, and ever so well done, draw upon a man the envy of the wicked, as may be observed in the case of Cain and Abel, 1 John 3:12; though some understand this, not passively, of the envy which is brought upon a man, and he endures, for the sake of the good he excels in; but actively, of the spirit of emulation with which he does it; though the work he does, as to the matter of it, is right; yet the manner of doing it, and the spirit with which he does it, are wrong; he does not do it with any good affection to the thing itself, nor with any good design, only from a spirit of emulation to outdo his neighbour: so the Targum paraphrases it,

"this is the emulation that a man emulates his neighbour, to do as he; if he emulates him to do good, the heavenly Word does good to him; but if he emulates him to do evil, the heavenly Word does evil to him;''

and to this sense Jarchi; compare with this, Philippians 1:15.

This [is] also vanity, and vexation of spirit; whether it be understood in the one sense or the other; how dissatisfying and vexatious is it, when a man has taken a great deal of pains to do right works for public good, instead of having thanks and praise, is reproached and calumniated for it? and if he does a right thing, and yet has not right ends and views in it, it stands for nothing; it has only the appearance of good, but is not truly so, and yields no solid peace and comfort.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Every right work - Rather, every success in work.

For this ... - i. e., “This successful work makes the worker an object of envy.” Some understand the meaning to be, “this work is the effect of the rivalry of man with his neighbor.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 4:4. For this a man is envied — It is not by injustice and wrong only that men suffer, but through envy also. For if a man act uprightly and properly in the world, he soon becomes the object of his neighbour's envy and calumny too. Therefore the encouragement to do good, to act an upright part, is very little. This constitutes a part of the vain and empty system of human life.