Pengkhotbah 1:3

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Apakah gunanya manusia berusaha dengan jerih payah di bawah matahari?

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Apakah gunanya manusia berusaha dengan jerih payah di bawah matahari?

Contextual Overview

¹ The wordes of the preacher ye sonne of Dauid kyng of Hierusalem. ² All is but most vayne vanitie saith the preacher, & all is most vayne [I say] and but playne vanitie. ³ For what els hath a man of all the labour that he taketh vnder the sunne?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

profit: Ecclesiastes 2:22, Ecclesiastes 3:9, Ecclesiastes 5:16, Proverbs 23:4, Proverbs 23:5, Isaiah 55:2, Habakkuk 2:13, Habakkuk 2:18, Matthew 16:26, Mark 8:36, Mark 8:37, John 6:27

under: Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:19, Ecclesiastes 4:3, Ecclesiastes 4:7, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 6:12, Ecclesiastes 7:11, Ecclesiastes 8:15-17, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Ecclesiastes 9:6, Ecclesiastes 9:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:17 - cursed Genesis 3:19 - In Psalms 119:96 - I have seen

Cross-References

Job 36:30
Behold, he doth stretch his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.

Job 38:19
Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse?

Psalms 33:6
By the worde of God are the heauens made: and all the hoastes of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalms 33:9
For he spake and it was: he commauded, and it was brought to passe.

Psalms 97:11
There is sowen a lyght for the ryghteous: and gladnesse for such as be vpryght of heart.

Psalms 104:2
Who is decked with light as it were with a garment: spreadyng out the heauens like a curtayne.

Psalms 118:27
It is the Lord God who hath geuen vs lyght: bynde a sacrifice with cordes vnto the hornes of the aulter.

Psalms 148:5
Euen they shoulde prayse the name of God: for he commaunded, and they were created.

Isaiah 45:7
It is I that created light and darknesse, I make peace and trouble: yea euen I the Lorde do all these thinges.

Isaiah 60:19
The sunne shall neuer be thy day light, and the light of the moone shall neuer shine vnto thee: but the Lorde him selfe shalbe thyne euerlasting light, and thy God shalbe thy glory.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?] This is a general proof of the vanity of all things, since there is no profit arises to a man of all his labour; for, though it is put by way of question, it carries in it a strong negative. All things a man enjoys he gets by labour; for man, through sin, is doomed and born unto it, Job 5:7; he gets his bread by the sweat of his brow, which is a part of the curse for sin; and the wealth and riches got by a diligent hand, with a divine blessing, are got by labour; and so all knowledge of natural and civil things is acquired through much labour and weariness of the flesh; and these are things a man labours for "under the sun", which measures out the time of his labour: when the sun riseth, man goeth forth to his labour; and, by the light and comfortable warmth of it, he performs his work with more exactness and cheerfulness; in some climates, and in some seasons, its heat, especially at noon, makes labour burdensome, which is called, bearing "the heat and burden of the day", Matthew 20:12; and, when it sets, it closes the time of service and labour, and therefore the servant earnestly desires the evening shadow, Job 7:2. But now, of what profit and advantage is all this labour man takes under the sun, towards his happiness in the world above the sun? that glory and felicity, which lies in super celestial places in Christ Jesus? none at all. Or, "what remains of all his labour?" p as it may be rendered; that is, after death: so the Targum,

"what is there remains to a man after he is dead, of all his labour which he laboured under the sun in this world?''

nothing at all. He goes naked out of the world as he came into it; he can carry nothing away with him of all his wealth and substance he has acquired; nor any of his worldly glory, and grandeur, and titles of honour; these all die with him, his glory does not descend after him; wherefore it is a clear case that all these things are vanity of vanities; see Job 1:21. And, indeed, works of righteousness done by men, and trusted in, and by which they labour to establish a justifying righteousness, are of no profit and advantage to them in the business of justification and salvation; indeed, when these are done from right principles, and with right views, the labour in them shall not be in vain; God will not forget it; it shall have a reward of grace, though not of debt.

p מה יתדון בכל עמלו "quid habet amplius homo?" V. L. "quid residui?" Vatablus, Piscator, Mercerus, Gejerus, Rambachius; "quantum enim homini reliquum est, post omnem saum laborem?" Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What profit ... - The question often repeated is the great practical inquiry of the book; it receives its final answer in Ecclesiastes 12:13-14. When this question was asked, the Lord had not yet spoken Matthew 11:28. The word “profit” (or pre-eminence) is opposed to “vanity.”

Hath a man - Rather, hath man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 1:3. What profit hath a man — What is the sum of the real good he has gained by all his toils in life? They, in themselves, have neither made him contented nor happy.