In 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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Gill's Exposition
In the day of prosperity be joyful,.... Or, "in a good day" (q). When things go well in the commonwealth, in a man's family, and with himself, health, peace, and plenty, are enjoyed, a man's…
Barnes' Notes
Good and prosperous days are in God’s design special times of comfort and rejoicing: the days of affliction and trouble, are in God’s design the proper seasons of recollection and serious…
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…
Cambridge Bible
In the day of prosperity be joyful Literally, In the day of good, be in good, i.e.use it as it should be used. True wisdom, the teacher urges, is found in a man's enjoying whatever good actually comes…
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