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Hebrew Modern Translation
ืงืืืช 11:5
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ืืืฉืจ ืืื ื ืืืืข ืื ืืจื ืืจืื ืืขืฆืืื ืืืื ืืืืื ืืื ืื ืชืืข ืืช ืืขืฉื ืืืืืื ืืฉืจ ืืขืฉื ืืช ืืื
๏ฌปึทืึฒ๏ฌชึถึจืจ ืึตึฝืื ึฐืึธึค ื๏ญืึตึืขึทึ ืึทืึพ๏ฌณึถึฃืจึถืึฐ ืึธืจึ๏ฌตืึท ๏ฌปึทืขึฒืฆึธืึดึืื ๏ฌฑึฐืึถึฃืึถื ืึท๏ฌพึฐืึตืึธึื ๏ฌปึธึืึธื ืึนึคื ืชึตืึทืขึ ืึถืชึพืึทืขึฒ๏ฌซึตึฃื ืึธึฝืึฑืึนืึดึืื ืึฒ๏ฌชึถึฅืจ ืึทืขึฒ๏ฌซึถึื ืึถืชึพืึท๏ฌปึนึฝื ื
๏ฌปึทืึฒ๏ฌชึถืจ ืึตึฝืื ึฐืึธ ื๏ญืึตืขึท ืึทืึพ๏ฌณึถืจึถืึฐ ืึธืจ๏ฌตืึท ๏ฌปึทืขึฒืฆึธืึดืื ๏ฌฑึฐืึถืึถื ืึท๏ฌพึฐืึตืึธื ๏ฌปึธืึธื ืึนื ืชึตืึทืข ืึถืชึพืึทืขึฒ๏ฌซึตื ืึธึฝืึฑืึนืึดืื ืึฒ๏ฌชึถืจ ืึทืขึฒ๏ฌซึถื ืึถืชึพืึท๏ฌปึนึฝื ื
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thou knowest not what: John 3:8
nor: Psalms 139:14, Psalms 139:15
even: Ecclesiastes 7:24, Ecclesiastes 8:17, Job 5:9, Job 26:5-14, Job 36:24-33, Job 37:23, Job 38:4-41, Job 39:1 - Job 41:34, Psalms 40:5, Psalms 92:5, Psalms 104:24, Isaiah 40:28, Romans 11:33
Reciprocal: Mark 4:27 - and grow John 9:10 - General 1 Corinthians 15:35 - How
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As thou knowest not what [is] the way of the spirit,.... If indeed a man could foresee and be assured of seasonable weather for sowing and reaping, or a proper opportunity for doing good, all circumstances agreeing, it would be right to wait for it, and take it; but as these things are not in our power, nor within the compass of our knowledge, we should take the first opportunity of doing good, and leave the issue to divine Providence: as in many things in nature we are and should be content to be ignorant of them, and leave them with God, who brings them about by his secret power and providence: as, for instance, we know not "the way of the spirit", or "of the wind" r, as some render it; from whence it comes and whither it goes, where and when it will subside, or what wind will blow next; or of the spirit or soul of man, how it enters into the body. So the Targum,
"how the spirit of the breath of life goes into the body of an infant:''
whether it is by traduction, as some, which is not likely; or by transfusion, or by creation out of nothing, or by formation out of something pre-existent, and by an immediate infusion of it: or, "what is the way of the breath"; of the breath of a child in the womb, whether it breathes or not; if it does, how? if not, how does it live? or what is the way of the soul out of the body, how it goes out of it when the body dies;
[nor] how the bones [do grow] in the womb of her that is with child; or is "full", pregnant, big with child: or "in the womb that is full" s; full of liquids, and yet bones are separated from them, grow out of them, and in them, and are hardened; all which how it should be is unknown: "bones" are mentioned because they are the more solid and substantial parts of the body, the basis and strength of it; and because it may seem more difficult how any part of the seed should harden into them, while other parts are converted into skin and flesh;
even so thou knowest not the works of God, who maketh all; the Targum adds, in wisdom; as men are ignorant of many of the works of nature, so of those of Providence, especially which are future; as whether men shall be rich or poor, have days of prosperity or adversity; what their latter end will be, whether they shall not stand in need of the assistance of others, it may be of them or theirs to whom they now give; or what will be the issue of present acts of beneficence and liberality; these, with many other things of the like kind, should be left with God. Some understand this of the work of grace and conversion, which is a secret and difficult work, only wrought by the power and grace of God; and may be begun, or shortly will, in a poor person, judged an unworthy object of charity for supposed want of it, a thing unknown.
r รยรยจรยรย "venti", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Mercerus, Amama, Cocceius, Gejerus, Rambachius so Broughton, and the Syriac and Arabic versions. s รยรยรยรย รยรยรยรยรย "in utero pleno", Mercerus, Gejerus, Gussetius, p. 936. "in ventre pleno", Cocceius, so Aben Ezra.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
รขยยUnforeseen events come from God; and the man who is always gazing on the uncertain future will neither begin nor complete any useful work: but do thou bear in mind that times and circumstances, the powers of nature and the results to which they minister, are in the hand of God; and be both diligent and trustful.รขยย The images are connected chiefly with the occupation of an agricultural laborer: the discharge of rain from the cloud, and the inclination of the falling tree, and the direction of the wind, are beyond his control, though the result of his work is affected by them. The common application of the image of the fallen tree to the state of departed souls was probably not in the mind of the inspired writer.
Ecclesiastes 11:5
Spirit - The same Hebrew word (like รยรยฝรยตรย รยรยผรยฑ pneuma in Greek and รขยยSpiritรขยย in English) signifies both the wind Ecclesiastes 11:4 and the Spirit (compare marginal reference). The Old Testament in many places recognizes the special operation of God Job 10:8-12; Psalms 139:13-16; Jeremiah 1:5, and distinctly of the Spirit of God Job 31:15 in the origination of every child. Compare Genesis 2:7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ecclesiastes 11:5. As thou knowest not - the way of the spirit — Why God should have permitted such an such persons to fall into want, and how they came into all their distresses, thou canst not tell, no more than thou canst how their soul is united to their body, how it came to inform that body, or how the child was formed in the womb of its mother. Nor canst thou discern the end which God has in view in these things. He maketh all, every thing is open to him; and take heed lest, while pretending motives of scrupulosity and prudence, in not relieving the distresses of those thou pretendest to suspect to be unworthy, he does not see that a love of money is the motive of thy conduct, and a want of the bowels of mercy the cause why thou drivest this suspected beggar from thy door.
