Pre Game Proverb

Ecc 4:7  I observed yet another example of something meaningless under the sun.

Ecc 4:8  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.

Ecc 4:5  “Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin.”

Ecc 4:6  And yet, “Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind.”

Ecc 4:4  Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless—like chasing the wind. 

Ecc 4:1  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.

Ecc 4:2  So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living.

Ecc 4:3  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.

Ecc 3:21  For who can prove that the human spirit goes up and the spirit of animals goes down into the earth?

Ecc 3:22  So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is our lot in life. And no one can bring us back to see what happens after we die.

Ecc 3:18  I also thought about the human condition—how God proves to people that they are like animals.

Ecc 3:19  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!

Ecc 3:20  Both go to the same place—they came from dust and they return to dust.

Ecc 3:17  I said to myself, “In due season God will judge everyone, both good and bad, for all their deeds.”

Ecc 3:16  I also noticed that under the sun there is evil in the courtroom. Yes, even the courts of law are corrupt!

Ecc 3:15  What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.

Ecc 3:14  And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God’s purpose is that people should fear him.