Ecclesiastes 1:18
Ecclesiastes 1.1-18
Nothing Makes Sense
"When the son of David was king in Jerusalem, he was known to be very
wise, and he said: Nothing makes sense! Everything is nonsense. I have
seen it all- nothing makes sense! What is there to show for all of our
hard work here on this earth? People come, and people go, but still
the world never changes.
The sun comes up, the sun goes down; it hurries right back to where it
started from. The wind blows south, the wind blows north; round and
round it blows over and over again. All rivers empty into the sea, but
it never spills over; one by one the rivers return to their source.
All of life is far more boring than words could ever say. Our eyes and
our ears are never satisfied with what we see and hear. Everything
that happens has happened before; nothing is new, nothing under the
sun. Someone might say, "Here is something new!" But it happened
before, long before we were born. No one who lived in the past is
remembered anymore, and everyone yet to be born will be forgotten too.
It Is Senseless To Be Wise
I said these things when I lived in Jerusalem as king of Israel. With
all my wisdom I tried to understand everything that happens here on
earth. And God has made this so hard for us humans to do. I have seen
it all, and everything is just as senseless as chasing the wind. If
something is crooked, it can't be made straight; if something isn't
there, it can't be counted. I said to myself, "You are by far the
wisest person who has ever lived in Jerusalem. You are eager to learn,
and you have learned a lot." Then I decided to find out all I could
about wisdom and foolishness. Soon I realized that this too was as
senseless as chasing the wind. The more you know, the more you hurt;
the more you understand, the more you suffer."
God bless you.
Nothing Makes Sense
"When the son of David was king in Jerusalem, he was known to be very
wise, and he said: Nothing makes sense! Everything is nonsense. I have
seen it all- nothing makes sense! What is there to show for all of our
hard work here on this earth? People come, and people go, but still
the world never changes.
The sun comes up, the sun goes down; it hurries right back to where it
started from. The wind blows south, the wind blows north; round and
round it blows over and over again. All rivers empty into the sea, but
it never spills over; one by one the rivers return to their source.
All of life is far more boring than words could ever say. Our eyes and
our ears are never satisfied with what we see and hear. Everything
that happens has happened before; nothing is new, nothing under the
sun. Someone might say, "Here is something new!" But it happened
before, long before we were born. No one who lived in the past is
remembered anymore, and everyone yet to be born will be forgotten too.
It Is Senseless To Be Wise
I said these things when I lived in Jerusalem as king of Israel. With
all my wisdom I tried to understand everything that happens here on
earth. And God has made this so hard for us humans to do. I have seen
it all, and everything is just as senseless as chasing the wind. If
something is crooked, it can't be made straight; if something isn't
there, it can't be counted. I said to myself, "You are by far the
wisest person who has ever lived in Jerusalem. You are eager to learn,
and you have learned a lot." Then I decided to find out all I could
about wisdom and foolishness. Soon I realized that this too was as
senseless as chasing the wind. The more you know, the more you hurt;
the more you understand, the more you suffer."
God bless you.
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