Ecclesiastes 4

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Recompensed - Punished for his sins.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Recompensed - Punished for his sins.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Recompensed - Punished for his sins.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Recompensed - Punished for his sins.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

Recompensed - Punished for his sins.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Lie in wait - Are designed to entrap others, and to destroy them. Deliver them - From those that lie in wait for them.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Are not - Both they and their families suddenly perish.

Ecclesiastes 4:9

Despised - That lives in a mean condition. Honoureth - That glories in his high birth or gay attire.

Ecclesiastes 4:10

Regardeth - He will not destroy it either by labour beyond its strength, or by denying it necessary food or rest. Cruel - There is cruelty mixed even with their most merciful actions.

Ecclesiastes 4:11

Tilleth - That employs his time in an honest calling. Vain persons - In an idle course of living.

Ecclesiastes 4:12

Desireth - He approves those arts, which wicked men use like nets to ensnare other men. The root - That piety, which is the root of his actions, yields him sufficient fruit both for his own need, and to do good to others.

Ecclesiastes 4:14

Mouth - By his pious and profitable discourses. Hands - Of his actions.

Ecclesiastes 4:15

Hearkeneth - That distrusts his own judgments, and seeks counsel from others.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

Covereth - The shame, or injury done to him, which he conceals and bears with patience.