Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:5

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:5 - 4:5

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 4:5 - 4:5

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:5 - 4:5
4:6 - 4:6
4:7 - 4:7
4:8 - 4:8
4:9 - 4:9
4:10 - 4:10
4:11 - 4:11
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:14 - 4:14
4:15 - 4:15
4:16 - 4:16

Still the

fool (the wicked oppressor) is not to be envied even in this life, who “folds his hands together” in idleness (Pro 6:10; Pro 24:33), living on the means he wrongfully wrests from others; for such a one

eateth his own flesh - that is, is a self-tormentor, never satisfied, his spirit preying on itself (Isa 9:20; Isa 49:26).