Ecclesiastes 11:3

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Ecclesiastes 11:3
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Book Ecclesiastes
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Ecclesiastes 11:3 is the third verse in the eleventh chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible. [1]

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The verse reads as follows in several scriptural translations:

Eschatological interpretation

The wide interpretation of the verse is that the fallen tree refers to the eschatological state of a human soul after death. The Benson Commentary says:

...and if the tree fall, &c. — As if he had said, Therefore, let us just now bring forth the fruits of righteousness, because death will shortly cut us down, and we shall then be determined to unchangeable happiness or misery, according as our works have been. [5]

Likewise, the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary says:

So man's character is unchangeable, whether for hell or heaven, once that death overtakes him. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Bible Gateway passage: Ecclesiastes 11:3 - King James Version". Bible Gateway. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  2. "Ecclesiastes 11:3 Interlinear: If the thick clouds are full of rain, On the earth they empty themselves; And if a tree doth fall in the south or to the north, The place where the tree falleth, there it is". biblehub.com. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  3. "Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 11 :: Septuagint (LXX)". Blue Letter Bible. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  4. "Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie". biblehub.com. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  5. 1 2 "Ecclesiastes 11:3 Commentaries: If the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it lies". biblehub.com. Retrieved 2022-05-19.