Pengkhotbah 6:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Karena apakah kelebihan orang yang berhikmat dari pada orang yang bodoh? Apakah kelebihan orang miskin yang tahu berperilaku di hadapan orang?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Karena apakah kelebihan orang yang berhikmat dari pada orang yang bodoh? Apakah kelebihan orang miskin yang tahu berperilaku di hadapan orang?

Contextual Overview

⁷ All the labour that a man taketh, is for him selfe, and yet his desire is neuer fylled after his mynde. ⁸ For what hath the wise more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore that he knoweth to walke with fooles before the lyuyng? ⁹ The cleare sight of the eye, is better then that the soule shoulde walke after desires of the lust: Howbeit, this is also a vayne thyng, and a disquietnesse of mynde. ¹⁰ The thyng that hath ben, is named alredy, and knowen that it is euen man him selfe: neither may he go to lawe with him that is mightier then he.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

what hath the wise: Ecclesiastes 2:14-16, Ecclesiastes 5:11

the poor: Genesis 17:1, Psalms 101:2, Psalms 116:9, Proverbs 19:1, Luke 1:6, 1 Timothy 6:17

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 2:16 - how Ecclesiastes 2:22 - hath man Romans 3:1 - advantage

Cross-References

Genesis 6:12
And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.

Genesis 6:17
And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.

Genesis 19:19
Beholde thy seruaunt hath founde grace in thy syght, and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauyng my lyfe: Beholde I can not be saued in the mountayne, lest some harme fall vppon me, and I dye.

Psalms 84:11
For God the Lorde is a sunne and a shielde: God geueth grace and worship, he withholdeth no good thyng from them that liue in any perfection.

Psalms 145:20
God preserueth all those that loue him: but he wyll bring to nothyng such as be vngodly.

Proverbs 3:4
So shalt thou finde fauour and good vnderstandyng in the sight of God and men.

Proverbs 8:35
For whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtaine fauour of the Lorde.

Proverbs 12:2
A good man is acceptable vnto the Lorde: but the wicked imaginer wyll he condempne.

Jeremiah 31:2
Thus saith the Lord: The people of Israel which escaped in the wildernesse from the sworde, founde grace to come into their rest.

Luke 1:30
And the Angel saide vnto her: Feare not Marie, for thou hast founde grace with God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For what hath the wise more than the fool,.... More delight and pleasure, in gratifying his senses, by eating and drinking: the wise man enjoys no more than the fool; the fool finds as much pleasure in the labour of his hands, which is for his mouth, as the wise man does; and the wise man can get no more satisfaction to his mind, from these outward gratifications, than the fool;

what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? either, what does the poor man want more than the rich man, that knows how to get his bread, and is diligent and industrious among men to live, and does get a livelihood for himself and family; he enjoys all the sweets and comforts of life, as well as the rich man: or what hath the poor knowing man? as Aben Ezra interprets it, according to the accents; what has he more or does he enjoy more, than the poor foolish man, provided he has but sense enough to behave himself among men, so as to have bread to eat, and clothes to wear; which is as much as any man can enjoy, be he ever so rich or so wise?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Connect these verses with Ecclesiastes 6:2-3 : “All labor is undertaken with a view to some profit, but as a rule the people who labor are never satisfied. What advantage then has he who labors if (being rich) he is wise, or if being poor he knows how to conduct himself properly; what advantage have such laborers above a fool? (None, so far as they are without contentment, for) a thing present before the eyes is preferable to a future which exists only in the desire.”

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What - literally, what profit (as in Ecclesiastes 1:3).

Knoweth ... living - i. e., “Knows how to conduct himself rightly among his contemporaries.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 6:8. For what hath the wise more than the fool? — They must both labour for the same end. Both depend upon the labour of themselves or others for the necessaries of life. Both must eat and drink in order to live; and the rich man can no more eat two meals at a time, than he can comfortably wear two changes of raiment. The necessaries of life are the same to both, and their condition in life is nearly similar; liable to the same diseases, dissolution, and death.