CHAPTER 12 V1 – 8 speaks about vanity and the fear of God. Note (v1) 2Chr. 34: 3, Prov. 22: 6, Lam. 3: 27, 2 Sam. 19: 35, (v4) 2 Sam. 19: 35 ,(v5) Job 17: 13, Gen. 50: 10, Jer. 9: 17, (v7) Gen. 3: 19, Job 34: 15, Ps. 90: 3, Num. 16: 22, 27: 16, Job 34: 14, Is. 57: 16, Zech. 12: 1, (v8) Ps. 62: 9, v9 – 14 speaks about the whole duty of man (v9) 1 King 4: 32, (v13) Deut. 6: 2, 10: 12, Mic. 6: 8, (v14) Matt. 12: 36, Acts 17: 30, 31, Rom. 2: 16, 1 Cor. 4: 5, 2 Cor. 5: 10, v1 – 7 , v1 actually addressed the youth even though it describe old age. The gradual darkening of the heavenly bodies represents declining vitality and joy, and the approaching clouds represents the storms of old age (v2).The keepers of the house are the arms, the strong man are the legs, the grinders are the teeth, and those that look out of the windows are the eyes (v3), Growing of a great estate (v4) finally life itself is all its preciousness is cut off. Death is pictured as the irreversible shattering of a golden bowl when cut from the end of a silver cord and the similar smashing of a pitcher or wheel (v6) after death the spirit returns to God for judgment and the body returns to dust. (Gen. 3: 19). V9 – 11 relates to Solomon as a wise man who taught what is upright and true , not as a cynic, pessimist, skeptic, and so on from one shepherd , God is the origin of the books teaching. V12 – 14 states that God might not have answered every problem of life, but He has commanded man to live joyfully, responsibly, and wisely, finally, the controlling factor of all of life should be the fear of God, that is submission to God and His revelation (Prov.1: 7). The certainty of divine judgment demands it.
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