... poetry and is really hard to understand. He is mainly writing about the foolishness of a materialistic life. He also tells us about life's problems and talks about experimentations with life. Ecclesiastes just keeps going on and on about how life is worthless and meaningless (1:2-3). The book keeps saying things like, "the rivers run into the sea but yet the sea is ... for his earthly possessions and they will not buy him eternity. Everything that a person gains is from God. Always believe that God has a plan. There is a right time for everything (3:1). Ecclesiastes encourages me to try...

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... chiefs were called "wise men,"" emphasizing the importance of wisdom and how it is needed in order for the tribe and the individual to survive. However, the first chapter of Ecclesiastes, a book in the Bible, states, "For in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow."" In short, with knowledge comes pain, a very valid statement. While ... two, all dating from many different periods and something experienced by many different generations and peoples. Regardless of whatever arguments may be presented in opposition to the Bible's statement in Ecclesiastes, ...

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... no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us. " (Ecclesiastes 1:9-10) The same similarities found between The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible are the same things we are facing today. We still find men with amazing physical strength, great ... ...

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... down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken." (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12). The men in this verse work together, keeping each other strong. Our nation, those still a young nation has become one of the most powerful economic and military powers in ... ...

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... was how the water got into the rivers from the seas, and how it lost its salt content. The evidence suggests that the ancients' ideas came from the Bible. In Ecclesiastes 1:7, it says, all the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come thither they return again.' "Once again the ... ...

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... poor and have no hopes. Have a proper view of money. The Bible says: "Wisdom is for a protection; but the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom itself preserves alive its owners." (Ecclesiastes 7:12) Money is not everything. It can provide a measure of security, it enables people to buy certain things they need, but it has its limitations. There are things of greater ... ...

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... or suffering in hell, or Hades? The Bible replies:"The dead know nothing...for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom,nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening."--Ecclesiastes 9:5,10, Catholic Douay Version. However you may ask "Why does Rev.20:10, say that the Devil will be 'tormented' in the lake of fire?" If, as we have seen ... ...

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... ." Job is the first book followed by the book of Psalms, which teaches us how to pray, the book of Proverbs, which teaches us how to act, the book of Ecclesiastes, which teaches us how to enjoy, and the Song of Solomon, which teaches us how to love. Using the book of Job, God is instructing us on how to suffer ... ...

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... over one month of age were considered persons for the purposes of enumeration. A baby under one month of age and a fetus were apparently not worthy of being counted as a human. Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 If a man begats 100 children...and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say that an untimely birth [a miscarriage] is better than he ... ...

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... down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken." (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12). The men in this verse work together, keeping each other strong. Our nation, those still a young nation has become one of the most powerful economic and military powers in ... ...

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