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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Ecclesiastes 3:3 continued

3:3 continued
a time to tear down and a time to build,

Ecclesiastes 3:2 continued

3:2 continued:
a time to plant and a time to uproot

Ecclesiastes 3:2

3:2
a time to be born and a time to die,

Ecclesiastes 3:1

3:1
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

Sunday, April 02, 2006

2:26
To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

2:25
for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?

Ecclesiastes 2:24

2:24
A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God

Ecclesiastes 2:23

2:23
All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

2:22
What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:21

2:21
For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

2:20
So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

2:19
And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 2:18

2:18
I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

2:16
For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered;
in days to come both will be forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise man too must die!

Ecclesiastes 2:15

2:15
Then I thought in my heart,
"The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?"
I said in my heart,
"This too is meaningless."

Ecclesiastes 2:14

2:14
The wise man has eyes in his head,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.

Ecclesiastes 2:13

2:13
Then I saw that even [human] wisdom [that brings sorrow] is better than [the pleasures of] folly as far as light is better than darkness.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

2:12
12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
and also madness and folly.
What more can the king's successor do
than what has already been done?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

2:11
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

2:10
I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my work,
and this was the reward for all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

2:9
I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

Ecclesiastes 2:8 continued

2:8 continued...
I acquired men and women singers, and a harem as well—the delights of the heart of man.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

2:8
I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

2:7

I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house.
I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me.