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The Empty Life
Ecclesiastes 2
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1 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, this also was vanity.
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2 I said of laughter—“Madness!”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
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3 I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly,
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till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.
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4 I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards.
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5 I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.
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6 I made myself water pools from which to water the growing trees of the grove.
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7 I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house. Yes, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
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8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers,
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the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments
of all kinds.
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9 So I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.
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10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
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For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;And this was my reward from all my labor.
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11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had doneAnd on the labor in which I had toiled;
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And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.There was no profit under the sun.
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12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly;For what can the man do who succeeds the king?—Only what he has already done.
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13 Then I saw that wisdom excels follyAs light excels darkness.
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14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head,But the fool walks in darkness.Yet I myself perceivedThat the same event happens to them all.
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15 So I said in my heart,“As it happens to the fool,It also happens to me,And why was I then more wise?”Then I said in my heart,“This also is vanity.”
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16 For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever,Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come.
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And how does a wise man die?As the fool!
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17 Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
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19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
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20 Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun.
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21 For there is a man whose labor iswith wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
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22 For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?
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23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
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24 Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
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25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
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that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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1. EARTHY WISDOM
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Ecc. 1:17 And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind.
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Ecc. 1:18For in much wisdom is much grief,And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
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James 1:5If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
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Prov. 21:30There is no wisdom or understandingOr counsel against the LORD.
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2. PLEASURE
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Ecc. 2:1I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, this also was vanity.
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Ecc. 2:10Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
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For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;And this was my reward from all my labor.
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Prov. 14:13The house of the wicked will be overthrown,But the tent of the upright will flourish.
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13. HUMAN LABOR
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Ecc. 2:4-54 I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards.
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5 I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them..
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Ecc. 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had doneAnd on the labor in which I had toiled;
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And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.There was no profit under the sun.
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Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
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Ecc. 2:18-1918 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
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19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
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4. RICHES
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Ecc. 2:8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces.
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I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments of all kinds.
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Ecc. 5:10He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.This also is vanity.
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Matt. 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
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Matt. 19:2019 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;
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20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
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Ecc. 12:13-1413 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:Fear God and keep His commandments,For this is man’s all.
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14 For God will bring every work into judgment,Including every secret thing,Whether good or evil.