14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-22)Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the things of this world. Here are some of the praises and the precepts of wisdom. I. The praises of wisdom. Many things are here said in its commendation, to engage us to get and retain wisdom. 1. Wisdom is…
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