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Ecclesiastes 6:1–6 – Wealth Without Enjoyment

What happens: A man may have wealth, honor, and many children, yet God does not grant him power to enjoy them. A stillborn child is better than a long life without satisfaction. Even two thousand years without joy is empty.

What it means: Possession without God-given joy is a curse, not a blessing. God is the Giver of both gifts and enjoyment. True good comes from His favor, not from plenty.

Ecclesiastes 6:7–12 – Longing and Limits

What happens: All a person’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not filled. The wise has no lasting advantage over the fool, or the poor who knows how to live. Better to enjoy what you see than to chase fantasies. Many words increase vanity, and who can tell what is good for a man in the short days of his life?

What it means: Human desire outruns supply, proving our limits. Contentment with what God provides is wiser than restless craving. Only God knows what is truly good and where life is heading.

Application

  • Ask God for the grace to enjoy what He already gave you.
  • Practice contentment instead of chasing endless upgrades.
  • Keep your words and plans modest before the God who knows best.

Bible

1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

2A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

7All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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