Ecc 1:13, 2:4-9, 4:3, 5:18, 9:9 | TSK | STEP | I gave. this sore. to be exercised. or, to afflict them.

1Ch 25:1,6; Job 21:11,12; Ps 150:3-5; Da 3:5,7,15; Am 6:5The difficult words {shiddah weshiddoth} are variously rendered. The LXX. have [oinocoon kai oinochoas,] "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, [kulikon kai kulikia,] "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, {scyphos et urceolos, (Vulg. {urceos,}) "goblets and pots;" Targum, "warm and cold baths;" others, as M. Desvoeux, "male and female captives;" others, "cooks and confectioners;" others, "a species of musical compositions," derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music; but others, with more probability, "wives and concubines;" and {siddoth} may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic {seedat, domina, conjux} from {sada,} in {Conj. V. conjugium inivit.} Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they are not mentioned at all, which is wholly unaccountable.

1:16; 1Ki 3:12; 10:7,23; 1Ch 29:25; 2Ch 1:1; 9:22,23

Ecclesiastes 4:3

better.

6:3-5; Job 3:10-16; 10:18,19; Jer 20:17,18; Mt 24:19; Lu 23:29

who.

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

Ecclesiastes 5:18

it is good and comely. Heb. there is a good which is comely,etc.

2:24; 3:12,13,22; 8:15; 9:7; 11:9; 1Ti 6:17

the days. Heb. the number of the days. it is his.

2:10; 3:22; Jer 52:34

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully. Heb. See, or Enjoy life. with the wife.

Pr 5:18,19; 18:22; 19:14; Mal 2:15

all the days of the life.

6:12; Ps 39:5; 144:4

for.

2:10,24; 3:13,22; 5:18