Pengkhotbah 10:6

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

pada banyak tempat yang tinggi, didudukkan orang bodoh, sedangkan tempat yang rendah diduduki orang kaya.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
pada banyak tempat yang tinggi, didudukkan orang bodoh, sedangkan tempat yang rendah diduduki orang kaya.

Contextual Overview

⁴ If a principall spirite be geuen thee to beare rule, be not negligent then in thine office: for he that can take cure of him selfe, auoydeth great offences. ⁵ Another plague is there whiche I haue seene vnder the sunne, namely, the ignoraunce that is commonly among princes: ⁶ in that a foole sitteth in great dignitie, and the riche are set downe beneath. ⁷ I haue seene seruauntes ride vpon horses, and princes goyng vpon their feete as it were seruauntes. ⁸ But he that diggeth vp a pitte, shall fall therin hym selfe: and who so breaketh downe the hedge, a serpent shall byte hym. ⁹ Who so remoueth stones, shall haue trauayle withall: and he that heweth wood, shalbe hurt therwith. ¹⁰ When an iron is blunt and the poynt not sharpened, it must be whet agayne, and that with might: Euen so doth wisdome folowe diligence. ¹¹ A backbiter is no better then a serpent that stingeth without hissing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Folly: Judges 9:14-20, 1 Kings 12:13, 1 Kings 12:14, Esther 3:1, Psalms 12:8, Proverbs 28:12, Proverbs 28:28

dignity: Heb. heights

the rich: James 2:3-5

Reciprocal: Proverbs 14:29 - exalteth Ecclesiastes 10:17 - when 2 Peter 2:10 - to speak

Cross-References

Genesis 9:22
And Ham the father of Chanaan, seeyng the nakednesse of his father, tolde his two brethren without.

Genesis 10:8
The children of Raamah: Seba, and Dedan, Chus also begat Nimrod.

Genesis 10:16
And Iebusi, and Emori, and Girgasi,

1 Chronicles 4:40
And they founde fat pasture and good, and a wide lande, quiete and fruitefull: for they of Ham had dwelt there before.

Psalms 78:51
And he smote all the first borne of Egypt: the first fruites of concupiscence in the pauilions of Cham.

Psalms 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt: & Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham.

Psalms 105:27
they did their message, workyng his signes among them, and wonders in the lande of Cham.

Psalms 106:22
wonderous workes in ye land of Cham, [and] terrible thinges at the red sea.

Isaiah 11:11
At the same time shall the Lord take in hande agayne to recouer the remnaunt of his people, whiche shalbe left aliue from the Assirians, Egyptians, Arabians, Morians, Elamites, Chaldees, Antiochians, & from the Ilandes of the sea,

Jeremiah 46:9
Get you vp ye horses, roule foorth ye charets, come foorth worthyes, ye Ethiopians, ye Libyans with your bucklers, ye Lydians with your bowes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Folly is set in great dignity,.... Or "in great heights" q; in high places of honour and truest; even foolish and wicked men; men of poor extraction, of low life, and of mean abilities and capacities; and, which is worse, men vile and vicious, as Doeg the Edomite, Haman the Amalekite, and others;

and the rich sit in low places; men not only of fortune and estates, and above doing mean and little actions, and so more fit for such high places; but men rich in wisdom and knowledge, of large capacities and of great endowments of mind, and so abundantly qualified for posts in the administration of government; and, above all, men rich in grace, fearing God, and hating coveteousness, as rulers ought to be, Exodus 18:21; and yet these sometimes are neglected, live in obscurity, who might otherwise be very useful in public life. The Targum interprets this and the following verse of the Israelites in exile and poverty among the Gentiles for their sins; so Jarchi.

q במרומים רבים εν υψεσι μεγαλοις, Sept. "in celsitudinibus amplis", Piscator, Amama, Gejerus; "in sublimitatibus amplis", Cocceius; "in altitudinibus magnis", Rambachius; "in great height", Broughton.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “evil” of Ecclesiastes 10:5 is here specified as that caprice of a king by which an unworthy favorite of low origin is promoted to successive dignities, while a noble person is degraded or neglected.