the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Pengkhotbah 6:11
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Karena makin banyak kata-kata, makin banyak kesia-siaan. Apakah faedahnya untuk manusia?
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Bible Verse Review
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Ecclesiastes 1:6-9, Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 1:18, Ecclesiastes 2:3-11, Ecclesiastes 3:19, Ecclesiastes 4:1-4, Ecclesiastes 4:8, Ecclesiastes 4:16, Ecclesiastes 5:7, Psalms 73:6, Hosea 12:1
Reciprocal: Job 7:16 - my days Psalms 39:6 - surely Ecclesiastes 1:2 - General Ecclesiastes 4:4 - This is Ecclesiastes 11:8 - All that Luke 10:41 - many Romans 3:1 - advantage 1 Corinthians 15:19 - this
Cross-References
And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:
And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.
And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation.
The same began to be mightie in the earth, for he was a mightie hunter before the Lorde: Wherfore it is sayde, Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the Lorde.
But the men of Sodome [were] wicked, and exceedyng sinners agaynst the Lorde.
Because thyne heart did melt, and thou diddest meeke thy selfe before God when thou heardest his wordes against this place, and against the inhabiters thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before me, and tarest thy clothes, and weepedst before me: that haue I heard also, sayth the Lorde.
God wyll trye the righteous: but his soule abhorreth the vngodly, and hym that delighteth in wickednes.
Destroy their tongues O Lorde, and deuide [them]: for I haue seene oppression and strife in the citie.
A man full of tongue can not prosper vpon the earth: euyll shall hunt the outragious person to ouerthrowe him.
Uiolence and robberie shall neuer be hearde of in thy lande, neither harme and destruction within thy borders: thy walles shalbe called health, and thy gates the prayse of God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity,.... As appears by all that has been said in this and the preceding chapters; such as wisdom and knowledge, wealth and riches, pleasure, power, and authority. Man is a poor vain creature himself, all he is and has is vanity; and these serve but to increase it, and make him vainer and vainer still;
what [is] man the better? for these things? not at all, rather the worse, being more vain; there is no profit by them, no excellency arises to him from them, no happiness in them, nothing that will be of any service to him, especially with respect to a future state, or when he comes to die. It may be rendered, as it is in the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, "seeing there are many words that multiply vanity"; as all such words do that are used with God by way of murmur and complaint concerning a man's lot and condition in this world, and as expostulating and contending with him about it; these increase sin, and by them men contract more guilt, and therefore are not the better for such litigations, but the worse; and so the words stand in connection with Ecclesiastes 6:10: but the former sense seems best, this being the conclusion of the wise man's discourse concerning vanity. So the Targum and Jarchi understand it of things, and not words.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Things - Namely, the various circumstances detailed in the foregoing chapters, from the Preacherâs personal experience, and his observation of other people, ending with the comprehensive declaration in Ecclesiastes 6:10 to the effect that vanity is an essential part of the constitution of creation as it now exists, and was foreknown.
What is man the better? - Rather, what is profitable to man?
