Chapter 4

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I returned Job 6:29; Mal 3:18

and considered Eccl 3:16, Eccl 5:8, Eccl 7:7; Exod 1:13-14, Exod 1:16, Exod 1:22, Exod 2:23-24, Exod 5:16-19; Deut 28:33, Deut 28:48; Judg 4:3, Judg 10:7-8; Neh 5:1-5; Job 24:7-12; Ps 10:9-10; Prov 28:3, Prov 28:15-16; Isa 5:7, Isa 51:23, Isa 59:7, Isa 59:13-15; Mal 3:5

the tears Ps 42:3, Ps 42:9, Ps 80:5, Ps 102:8-9; Mal 2:13; Jas 5:4

they had Job 16:4, Job 19:21-22; Ps 69:20, Ps 142:4; Prov 19:7; Lam 1:2, Lam 1:9; Matt 26:56; 2Tim 4:16-17

side Heb. hand


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Eccl 2:17, Eccl 9:4-6; Job 3:17-21


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better Eccl 6:3-5; Job 3:10-16, Job 10:18-19; Jer 20:17-18; Matt 24:19; Luke 23:29

who Eccl 1:14, Eccl 2:17; Ps 55:6-11; Jer 9:2-3


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every etc. Heb. all the rightness of work, that this is the envy of man from his neighbour, Gen 4:4-8, Gen 37:2-11; 1Sam 18:8-9, 1Sam 18:14-16, 1Sam 18:29-30; Prov 27:4; Matt 27:18; Acts 7:9; Jas 4:5; 1John 3:12

This is Eccl 4:16, Eccl 1:14, Eccl 2:21, Eccl 2:26, Eccl 6:9, Eccl 6:11; Gen 37:4, Gen 37:11


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fool Prov 6:10-11, Prov 12:27, Prov 13:4, Prov 20:4, Prov 24:33-34

eateth That is, with envy (see Eccl 4:4), though too idle to follow his neighbour's example. Job 13:14; Prov 11:17; Isa 9:20


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Ps 37:16; Prov 15:16-17, Prov 16:8, Prov 17:1


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Eccl 4:1; Ps 78:33; Zech 1:6


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one Eccl 4:9-12; Gen 2:18; Isa 56:3-5

he hath Gen 15:2-3

no Isa 5:8

is his Eccl 1:8, Eccl 5:10; Prov 27:20; Hab 2:5-9; 1John 2:16

For Ps 39:6; Isa 44:19-20; Luke 12:20

it is Eccl 1:13, Eccl 2:23; Isa 55:2; Matt 11:28


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are Gen 2:18; Exod 4:14-16; Num 11:14; Prov 27:17; Hag 1:14; Mark 6:7; Acts 13:2; Acts 15:39-40; 1Cor 12:18-21

a good Ruth 2:12; John 4:36; 2John 1:8


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if Exod 32:2-4, Exod 32:21; Deut 9:19-20; 1Sam 23:16; 2Sam 11:27, 2Sam 12:7-14; Job 4:3-4; Isa 35:3-4; Luke 22:31-32; Gal 2:11-14, Gal 6:1; 1Thess 4:18, 1Thess 5:11

but Gen 4:8; 2Sam 14:6


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1Kgs 1:1-2


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And if This is well illustrated by the fable of the dying father, who, to shew his sons the advantages of union, gave them a bundle of twigs, which could not be broken when bound together, but were easily snapped asunder one by one.

and a 2Sam 23:9, 2Sam 23:16, 2Sam 23:18-19, 2Sam 23:23; Dan 3:16-17; Eph 4:3


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is a poor Eccl 9:15-16; Gen 37:2; Prov 19:1, Prov 28:6, Prov 28:15-16

will no more be Heb. knoweth not to be, 1Kgs 22:8; 2Chr 16:9-10, 2Chr 24:20-22, 2Chr 25:16


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For out This is probably an allusion to some fact with which we are unacquainted. History furnishes many instances of mean persons raised to sovereign authority, and of kings being reduced to the meanest offices, and to a morsel. Agrippa mounted the throne of Israel after having been long in prison; and similar instances are not wanting in modern times. Gen 41:14, Gen 41:33-44; Job 5:11; Ps 113:7-8

also 1Kgs 14:26-27; 2Kgs 23:31-34, 2Kgs 24:1-2, 2Kgs 24:6, 2Kgs 24:12, 2Kgs 25:7, 2Kgs 25:27-30; Lam 4:20; Dan 4:31


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child 2Sam 15:6


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no end 2Sam 15:12-13; 1Kgs 1:5-7, 1Kgs 1:40, 1Kgs 12:10-16

they also Judg 9:19-20; 2Sam 18:7-8, 2Sam 19:9

this Eccl 1:14, Eccl 2:11, Eccl 2:17, Eccl 2:26


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