Ecc 11:1-2, Isa 58:7-11, Mar 14:7, Luk 14:13-14, 2Cor 9:8-14, Gal 2:10 | TSK | STEP | Directions for charity. Death in life, and the day ofjudgment in the days of youth, are to be thought on. Cast.That is, says Bp. Lowth, "Sow thy seed or corn on the face of the waters;" in plain terms, sow without any hope of a harvest: do good even to them on whom your benefactions seem thrown away. Dr. Jebb has well illustrated it by the following passages: "Vain are the favours done to vicious men; Not vainer 'tis to sow the foaming deep. The deep no pleasant harvest shall afford, Nor will the wicked ever make return." "To befriend the wicked is like sowing in the sea." These, indeed, invert this precept; nor is it extraordinary that they should; "The one, frail human power alone produced, The other, God." thy bread. waters. Heb. face of the waters. for.

Ecclesiastes 11:1-2

1 Directions for charity.

7 Death in life,

9 and the day ofjudgment in the days of youth, are to be thought on.

Cast.That is, says Bp. Lowth, "Sow thy seed or corn on the face of the waters;" in plain terms, sow without any hope of a harvest: do good even to them on whom your benefactions seem thrown away. Dr. Jebb has well illustrated it by the following passages: "Vain are the favours done to vicious men; Not vainer 'tis to sow the foaming deep. The deep no pleasant harvest shall afford, Nor will the wicked ever make return." "To befriend the wicked is like sowing in the sea." These, indeed, invert this precept; nor is it extraordinary that they should; "The one, frail human power alone produced, The other, God."

thy bread.

De 15:7-11; Pr 11:24,25; 22:9; Isa 32:8

waters. Heb. face of the waters.

Isa 32:20

for.

6; De 15:10; Ps 41:1,2; 126:5,6; Pr 11:18; 19:17; Mt 10:13,42; 25:40

Lu 14:14; 2Co 9:6; Ga 6:8-10; Heb 6:10

a portion.

Ne 8:10; Es 9:19,22; Ps 112:9; Lu 6:30-35; 1Ti 6:18,19

seven.

Job 5:19; Pr 6:16; Mic 5:5; Mt 18:22; Lu 17:4

for.

Da 4:27; Ac 11:28-30; Ga 6:1; Eph 5:16; Heb 13:3

Isaiah 58:7-11

to deal.

10; Job 22:7; 31:18-21; Ps 112:9; Pr 22:9; 25:21; 28:27; Ec 11:1,2

Eze 18:7,16; Da 4:27; Mt 25:35-40; Lu 11:41; 19:8; Ro 12:20,21

2Co 9:6-10; 1Ti 5:10; Phm 1:7; Jas 2:15,16; 1Jo 3:17,18

bring.

16:3,4; Ge 18:2-5; 19:2; Jud 19:20,21; Ac 16:15,34; Ro 12:13

Heb 13:2,3

cast out. or, afflicted. the naked.

2Ch 28:15; Job 31:19,20; Eze 18:7; Mt 25:35-45; Lu 3:11

thine own.

Ge 19:14; Jud 9:2; Ne 5:5; Lu 10:26-36; 1Jo 3:17

thy light.

10,11; Job 11:17; Ps 37:6; 97:11; 112:4; Pr 4:18; Ho 6:3; Mal 4:2

and thine.

57:18; Jer 33:6; Ho 6:2; 14:4; Mt 13:15

and thy.

Ps 85:13; Ac 10:4,31,35

the glory.

52:12; Ex 14:19

be thy rereward. Heb. gather thee up.

shalt thou.

1:15; 30:19; 65:24; Ps 34:15-17; 37:4; 50:15; 66:18,19; 91:15; 118:5

Jer 29:12,13; Mt 7:7,8; 1Jo 3:21,22

Here.

Ge 27:18; 1Sa 3:4-8

the yoke.

the putting.

57:4; Pr 6:13

speaking.

59:3,4; Ps 12:2; Eze 13:8; Zec 10:2

thou draw.

7; De 15:7-10; Ps 41:1; 112:5-9; Pr 11:24,25; 14:31; 28:27; Lu 18:22

thy soul.Instead of {naphshecha,} "thy soul," eleven MSS. read {lachmecha,} "thy bread," which is adopted by Bp. Lowth; but "to draw out the soul" in relieving the poor, probably means to do it not of constraint, but cheerfully.

then.

8; 29:18; Job 11:17; Ps 37:6

the Lord.

49:10; Ps 25:9; 32:8; 48:14; 73:24; Joh 16:13; 1Th 3:11

and satisfy.

33:16; Job 5:20; Ps 33:19; 34:9,10; 37:19; Jer 17:8; Ho 13:5

drought. Heb. droughts. make fat.

Ps 92:14; Pr 3:8; 11:25; 13:4; 28:25

be like.

61:11; So 4:15; Jer 31:12; Eze 36:35

fail. Heb. lie, or deceive.

Job 6:15-20