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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 7:7 - 7:7
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oppression - recurring to the idea (Ecc 3:16; Ecc 5:8). Its connection with Ecc 7:4-6 is, the sight of “oppression” perpetrated by “fools” might tempt the “wise” to call in question God’s dispensations, and imitate the folly (equivalent to “madness”) described (Ecc 7:5, Ecc 7:6). Weiss, for “oppression,” translates, “distraction,” produced by merriment. But Ecc 5:8 favors English Version.
a gift - that is, the sight of bribery in “places of judgment” (Ecc 3:16) might cause the wise to lose their wisdom (equivalent to “heart”), (Job 12:6; Job 21:6, Job 21:7; Job 24:1, etc.). This suits the parallelism better than “a heart of gifts”; a benevolent heart, as Weiss.