Category Archives: Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes 5: 1-7….What is Solomon saying?

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for GodContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 5: 1-7….What is Solomon saying?”

Ecclesiastes 4: 9-16….Loneliness.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keepContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 4: 9-16….Loneliness.”

Ecclesiastes 4: 1-8….Is suicide the answer?

Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunateContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 4: 1-8….Is suicide the answer?”

Ecclesiastes 3: 16-22….Who am I? Where am I headed?

Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work. I said in myContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 3: 16-22….Who am I? Where am I headed?”

Ecclesiastes 3: 9-15….Do you like this answer?

What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from theContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 3: 9-15….Do you like this answer?”

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8….A Time for Everything

1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:2 a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break down, and a time to buildContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8….A Time for Everything”

Ecclesiastes 2: 12-17….Come chose, I did.

So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done. Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness. The wise person has hisContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 2: 12-17….Come chose, I did.”

Ecclesiastes 2: 9-11….Self-centredness.

So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.Continue reading “Ecclesiastes 2: 9-11….Self-centredness.”

Ecclesiastes 2: 1-8….A modern Billionaire!

More thoughts on the same passage as yesterday! I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity. I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?” I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—myContinue reading “Ecclesiastes 2: 1-8….A modern Billionaire!”