Ecclesiastes 11:3 | |
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Book | Ecclesiastes |
Christian Bible part | Old Testament |
Ecclesiastes 11:3 is the third verse in the eleventh chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible.[1]
The verse reads as follows in several scriptural translations:
The wide interpretation of the verse is that the fallen tree refers to the eschatological state of a human soul after death. Methodist writer Joseph Benson notes that:
...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]