Pengkhotbah 9:9

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Nikmatilah hidup dengan isteri yang kaukasihi seumur hidupmu yang sia-sia, yang dikaruniakan TUHAN kepadamu di bawah matahari, karena itulah bahagianmu dalam hidup dan dalam usaha yang engkau lakukan dengan jerih payah di bawah matahari.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Nikmatilah hidup dengan isteri yang kaukasihi seumur hidupmu yang sia-sia, yang dikaruniakan TUHAN kepadamu di bawah matahari, karena itulah bahagianmu dalam hidup dan dalam usaha yang engkau lakukan dengan jerih payah di bawah matahari.

Contextual Overview

⁴ And why? as long as a man liueth, he hath an hope: for a quicke dogge [say they] is better then a dead lion. ⁵ For they that be liuing knowe that they shall dye: but they that be dead knowe nothing, neither deserue they any more, for their memoriall is forgotten. ⁶ Also their loue, and their hatred, and their enuie is nowe perished, neither haue they any more part in the worlde in all that is done vnder the sunne. ⁷ Go thou thy way then, eate thy bread with ioy, & drinke thy wine with a glad heart, for thy workes please god: ⁸ Let thy garmentes be alwayes white, and let thy head lacke no oyntment. ⁹ Use thy selfe to liue ioyfully with thy wife whom thou louest all the dayes of thy life whiche is but vayne, that God geueth thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for that is thy portion in this life of al thy labour and trauayle that thou takest vnder the sunne. ¹⁰ Whatsoeuer thou takest in hande to do, that do with al thy power: for in the graue that thou goest vnto, there is neither worke, counsayle, knowledge, nor wysdome.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Live joyfully: Heb. See, or Enjoy life

with the wife: Proverbs 5:18, Proverbs 5:19, Proverbs 18:22, Proverbs 19:14, Malachi 2:15

all the days of the life: Ecclesiastes 6:12, Psalms 39:5, Psalms 144:4

for: Ecclesiastes 2:10, Ecclesiastes 2:24, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 5:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 26:8 - sporting Deuteronomy 24:5 - cheer up 1 Chronicles 14:3 - took Ecclesiastes 2:18 - I hated Isaiah 54:6 - a wife Malachi 2:14 - the wife 1 Corinthians 15:19 - this Colossians 3:19 - love

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
With thee also wyll I make my couenaunt: and thou shalt come into the arke, thou and thy sonnes, thy wife, and thy sonnes wyues with thee.

Genesis 9:7
But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein.

Genesis 9:8
God spake also vnto Noah, & to his sonnes with hym, saying:

Genesis 9:9
Beholde, I, euen I establishe my couenaunt with you, and with your seede after you:

Genesis 9:10
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, in foule, in cattell, in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you, of all that go out of the arke, whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be.

Genesis 9:11
And my couenaunt I make with you, that from hencefoorth euery fleshe be not rooted out with the waters of a fludde, neither shall there be a fludde to destroy the earth any more.

Genesis 9:17
And God sayd vnto Noah, This is the token of the couenaunt which I haue made betweene me and all fleshe that is vpon earth.

Genesis 22:17
That in blessing I wyll blesse thee, and in multiplying I wyll multiplie thy seede as the starres of heauen, and as the sande which is vpon the sea side, and thy seede shall possesse the gates of his enemies.

Jeremiah 33:20
Thus saith the Lorde: May the couenaunt whiche I haue made with day and night be broken, that there shoulde not be day and night in due season?

Romans 1:3
Of his sonne, which was made of the seede of Dauid after the fleshe:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest,.... Or "see", or "enjoy life" d: this is one of the ways of enjoying life comfortably, and one of the principal ones; that if a man has a wife whom he ought to love as himself as his own flesh, to take delight in her company, be pleasant with her, and rejoice in her, Proverbs 5:18; and this here may be put for all that pleasure and satisfaction which may be lawfully had in the enjoyment of all other relations and friends; which adds no small part to the comfort of a man's life;

all the days of the life of thy vanity; a wife is for life, and not after a while to be divorced; and to be lived joyfully with, not for a short time only, but all the days of life;

which he hath given thee under the sun; that is, either which wife God has given thee; for a wife is the gift of God, Genesis 3:12; and which is a gift under the sun; for above it, or in heaven, and in a future state, there is no marrying nor giving in marriage, Luke 20:35; or which days he hath given thee, so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions. It is added,

all the days of thy vanity; which is repeated, that it might be observed that the life of man is but a vain life, a vapour that soon vanishes away, and man in it, at his best estate, is vanity; and that notwithstanding all the enjoyments of life in the most comfortable manner here directed to, yet still the doctrine he set out with must be remembered, that all is vanity, Ecclesiastes 1:2;

for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun; this is all the outward happiness of a man in this life, and all the use, profit, and advantage of his labours, to eat and drink cheerfully, to clothe decently, to debar himself of nothing of lawful pleasure, particularly to live joyfully with his wife, and enjoy his friends; this is the utmost of outward felicity he can partake of, and this he should not deny himself. Ben Melech restrains this portion to a wife, and joyful living with her; but it is best to include all that goes before.

d ראה חיים "vide vitam", Pagninus, Vatablus, Drusius, Mercerus, Cocceius; "vel vitas", Montanus; "perfruere vita", V. L. "fracre vita", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus, Rambachius so Broughton.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Read these six verses connectedly, in order to arrive at the meaning of the writer; and compare Ecclesiastes 2:1-12.

After the description Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 of the portionless condition of the dead, the next thought which occurs is that the man who is prosperous and active should simply enjoy his portion all through this life Ecclesiastes 9:7-10; and then Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 follows the correcting thought (see Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 note), introduced as usual Ecclesiastes 2:12; Ecclesiastes 4:1, Ecclesiastes 4:7 by “I returned,” namely, that the course of events is disposed and regulated by another will than that of man.

The person addressed is one whose life of labor is already pleasing to God, and who bears visible tokens of God’s favor.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Now accepteth - Rather: “already has pleasure in.” Joy (the marginal reference note) is regarded as a sign of the approbation and favor of God.

Ecclesiastes 9:8

White garments and perfume are simply an expressive sign of joy.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

The works which we carry on here with the combined energies of body and soul come to an end in the hour of death, when the soul enters a new sphere of existence, and body and soul cease to act together. Compare John 9:4.

Device - See Ecclesiastes 7:25 note.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Chance - Or, “incident,” that which comes to us from without, one of the external events described in Ecclesiastes 3:0. Compare Ecclesiastes 2:14 note.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Time - See Ecclesiastes 3:1 ff.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 9:9. Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest — Marry prudently, keep faithfully attached to the wife thou hast chosen, and rejoice in the labour of thy hands.

Some understand this as the words of the libertine objector: "Live joyfully with the woman whom thou lovest best." But this does not comport so well with the scope of the place.