Ecclesiastes
1:1-11
A
Meaningless Life
-
1:1
The words of the Teacher, son of David,
king in Jerusalem:
- 2
"Meaningless! Meaningless!"
- says the
Teacher.
- "Utterly
meaningless!
- Everything
is meaningless."
-
- 3 What
does man gain from all his labor
- at which
he toils under the sun?
-
- 4
Generations come and generations go,
- but the
earth remains forever.
- 5 The sun
rises and the sun sets,
- and
hurries back to where it rises.
- 6 The wind
blows to the south
- and turns
to the north;
- round and
round it goes,
- 7 All
streams flow into the sea,
- yet the
sea is never full.
- To the
place the streams come from,
- there they
return again.
- 8 All
things are wearisome,
- more than
one can say.
- The eye
never has enough of seeing,
- nor the
ear its fill of hearing.
- 9 What has
been will be again,
- what has
been done will be done again;
- there is
nothing new under the sun.
- 10 Is
there anything of which one can say,
- "Look!
This is something new"?
- It was
here already, long ago;
- it was
here before our time.
- 11 There
is no remembrance of men of old,
- and even
those who are yet to come
- will not
be remembered
- by those who
follow.
This
is the Word of the Lord ... It is meant to
change the way that we think, and the way
that we live.
Commentary
by Bob
Pardue
Solomon is a classic
example of a person who has it all.
Sort of the Bill
Gates of his time he had power, riches,
wisdom, and King David as a
father.
Solomon also shows
us in this Bible passage from Ecclesiastes
and in verses to come that all this wealth
and power is meaningless without the love
of God.
Love in
Christ
- Bob
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Bob
Pardue is a
member of First
Baptist Church
in Lancaster, SC. He is ordained from Rich
Hill Baptist in Lancaster.
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