![]() ![]() Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? 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. 24 A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. 22 What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun? 23 All his days his work is pain and grief even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 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. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 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. 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. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Like the fool, the wise man too must die! 17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. What then do I gain by being wise?" I said in my heart, "This too is meaningless." 16 For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered in days to come both will be forgotten. 15 Then I thought in my heart, "The fate of the fool will overtake me also. ![]() 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. What more can the king's successor do than what has already been done? 13 I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. 12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. 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. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. 10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired I refused my heart no pleasure. ![]() 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. I acquired men and women singers, and a harem as well-the delights of the heart of man. 8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. I wanted to see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives. And what does pleasure accomplish?" 3 I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly-my mind still guiding me with wisdom. Bible Gateway Ecclesiastes 2 :: NIV Ecclesiastes 2 1 I thought in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good." But that also proved to be meaningless. ![]()
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