Ecclesiastes 3:17 (NLT) - 17 I said to myself, “In due season God will judge everyone, both good and bad, for all their deeds.”
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Ecclesiastes 3:18 (NLT) - 18 I also thought about the human condition—how God proves to people that they are like animals.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 (NLT) - 19 For people and animals share the same fate—both breathe and both must die. So people have no real advantage over the animals. How meaningless!
Ecclesiastes 3:20 (NLT) - 20 Both go to the same place—they came from dust and they return to dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:21 (NLT) - 21 For who can prove that the human spirit goes up and the spirit of animals goes down into the earth?
Ecclesiastes 3:22 (NLT) - 22 So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is why we are here! No one will bring us back from death to enjoy life after we die.
Ecclesiastes 4:1 (NLT) - 1 Again, I observed all the oppression that takes place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and their victims are helpless.
Ecclesiastes 4:2 (NLT) - 2 So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living.
Ecclesiastes 4:3 (NLT)
3 But most fortunate of all are those who are not yet born. For they have not seen all the evil that is done under the sun.
3 But most fortunate of all are those who are not yet born. For they have not seen all the evil that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 (NLT)
4 Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless—like chasing the wind.
4 Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless—like chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:5 (NLT)
5 “Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin.”
5 “Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin.”
Ecclesiastes 4:6 (NLT)
6 And yet, “Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind.”
6 And yet, “Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind.”
Ecclesiastes 4:8 (NLT)
This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and depressing.
This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and depressing.
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