Ecclesiastes 4:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 9:20
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 6:10-11
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: …
Job 13:14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Topics

Diligence Fool Idleness Labor Rising Self-Indulgence Slothfulness Sluggard

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-6)

Here Solomon returns to the observation and consideration of the vanity and vexation of spirit that attend the business of this world, which he had spoken of before, Eccl. 2:11. I. If a man be acute, and dexterous, and successful in his business, he gets the ill-will of his neighbours, Eccl. 4:4. Though he takes a great deal of pains, and goes through all travail, does not get his estate easily, b…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Still the fool (the wicked oppressor) is not to be envied even in this life, who “folds his hands together” in idleness (Pr 6:10; 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 (Is 9:20; 49:26).