"Everything is meaningless," says the Teacher, "completely meaningless!" Ecclesiastes 1:2 (NLT)
Definitions
- Hevel
- Smoke, Vapor, Meaningless, Vanity, Futility, Emptiness
- Amal
- Hard work, Labor
- “to toil to the point of exhaustion and yet experience little or no fulfillment in your work”
- Yithron
- Advantage, Profit, Gain, “that which is left over”
- “In the light of all the problems of life, what is the advantage of living? Is there any gain?”
Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 (NLT)
2 Chronicles 1:7-12 (NLT)
"8 Everything is wearisome beyond description. No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content.
9 History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new."
Ecclesiastes 1:8-9 (NLT)
“They that come after us will see nothing new, and they who went before us saw nothing more than we have seen.”
Marcus Aurelius
14 "I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless—like chasing the wind."
Ecclesiastes 1:14 (NLT)
13b "I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race."
Ecclesiastes 1:13b (NLT)
God
- Jehovah
- The God of the covenant, The God of revelation who is eternally self-existent and yet graciously relates Himself to sinful man
- Elohim
- The Mighty God, The glorious God of creation who exercises sovereign power
John 1:1-5 (NLT)
18 "The greater my wisdom, the greater my grief.
To increase knowledge only increases sorrow."
Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NLT)
MEANINGLESS
How would you describe your relationship with God?
12 "Teach us to realize the brevity of life,
so that we may grow in wisdom."
Psalm 90:12 (NLT)
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