Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 NIV
1I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on
mankind: 2GOD Gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that
they lack nothing their hearts desire, but GOD Does Not Grant them the ability
to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a
grievous evil.
3A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no
matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not
receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. 4It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in
darkness its name is shrouded. 5Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest
than does that man— 6even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy
his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
7Everyone’s toil is for their mouth,
yet
their appetite is never satisfied.
8What advantage have the wise over fools?
What do
the poor gain
by
knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
9Better what the eye sees
than
the roving of the appetite.
This
too is meaningless,
a
chasing after the wind.
and
what humanity is has been known;
no
one can contend
with
Someone Who Is Stronger.
11The more the words,
the
less the meaning,
and how
does that profit anyone?
12For who knows what is good for a person in
life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who
can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
Verse
10
Whatever exists has already been named, and
what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with Someone Wㅗㅒ Is Stronger
The Hebrew of this
verse might be translated;
"Who is he who is? his name has been already called.
And it is known that he is Adam; and that he cannot contend in judgment
with HIM WHO Is Stronger Than he."
Adam is his name; and
it at once points out;
1. His dignity; he was
made in the Image of GOD.
2. His fall; he sinned
against his Maker and was cast out of Paradise. And
3. His recovery by CHRIST;
the Second Man (Adam) was The LORD from Heaven, and The Quickening SPIRIT.
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