E C C L E S I A S T E S CHAP. VI. In this chapter, I. The royal preacher goes on further to show the vanity of worldly wealth, when men place their happiness in it and are eager and inordinate in laying it up. Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, and good for something, b... [ Lesen Sie weiter ]
_The Miseries of Covetousness._ 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it _is_ common among men: 2 A 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 s... [ Lesen Sie weiter ]
_The Insatiableness of Desire._ 7 All the labour of man _is_ for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. 8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? 9 Better _is_ the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: t... [ Lesen Sie weiter ]
_The Insatiableness of Desire._ 11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what _is_ man the better? 12 For 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?... [ Lesen Sie weiter ]