ECCLESIASTES Chapter 1 (GNB)
SERAPHIM
Home … BIBLE Page … OLD Testament
(GNB) … NEW Testament
(GNB)
http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/1/eVerseID/1/version/GNB
|
1:1 These are the
words of the Philosopher, David's son, who was king in Jerusalem. |
|
1:2 It is useless,
useless, said the Philosopher. Life is useless, all useless. |
|
1:3 You spend your
life working, laboring, and what do you have to
show for it? |
|
1:4 Generations
come and generations go, but the world stays just the same. |
|
1:5 The sun still rises, and it still goes down, going wearily back to where
it must start all over again. |
|
1:6 The wind blows
south, the wind blows north---round and round and back again. |
|
1:7 Every river
flows into the sea, but the sea is not yet full. The water returns to where
the rivers began, and starts all over again. |
|
1:8 Everything
leads to weariness---a weariness too great for
words. Our eyes can never see enough to be satisfied; our ears can never hear
enough. |
|
1:9 What has
happened before will happen again. What has been done before will be done
again. There is nothing new in the whole world. |
|
1:10
"Look," they say, "here is something new!" But no, it has
all happened before, long before we were born. |
|
1:11 No one
remembers what has happened in the past, and no one
in days to come will remember what happens between now and then. |
|
1:12 I, the
Philosopher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. |
|
1:13 I determined
that I would examine and study all the things that are done in this world.
God has laid a miserable fate upon us. |
|
1:14 I have seen
everything done in this world, and I tell you, it is all useless. It is like
chasing the wind. |
|
1:15 You can't
straighten out what is crooked; you can't count things that aren't there. |
|
1:16 I told myself,
"I have become a great man, far wiser than anyone who ruled Jerusalem
before me. I know what wisdom and knowledge really are." |
|
1:17 I was
determined to learn the difference between knowledge and foolishness, wisdom
and madness. But I found out that I might as well be chasing the wind. |
|
1:18 The wiser you
are, the more worries you have; the more you know, the more it hurts. |
CHAPTER
ENDS
SERAPHIM
Home … BIBLE Page … OLD Testament
(GNB) … NEW Testament
(GNB)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|