Charles Ellicott Commentary Ecclesiastes 6
Charles Ellicott Commentary
Ecclesiastes 6
Charles Ellicott Commentary
Ecclesiastes 6
"There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:" — Ecclesiastes 6:1 (ASV)
Common among: rather, heavy upon. In this section it is noted how even when riches remain with a man to the end of his life they may fail to bring him any real happiness.
"a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease." — Ecclesiastes 6:2 (ASV)
Riches, wealth, and honour.— The three words are used together regarding Solomon (2 Chronicles 1:11).
"If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:" — Ecclesiastes 6:3 (ASV)
That a man should be so occupied in the pursuit of riches as never to take any enjoyment from them is a common enough experience; but that the same man should have no tomb to preserve his name after him need not necessarily happen, so that one is tempted to think that the Preacher has some actual occurrence in his mind.
Untimely birth. —See references. We have just had another reminiscence of the Book of Job .
"for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;" — Ecclesiastes 6:4 (ASV)
He. —Rather, it— namely, the untimely birth.
"yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?" — Ecclesiastes 6:6 (ASV)
Though. — The conjunction here used is only found again in Esther 7:4.
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