Ecclesiastes
IN THIS LESSON
summary
The Teacher continues to reflects on the futility of life given the inevitable reality of death. The teacher laments that regardless of how wise or foolish a person, he will die and be forgotten. Furthermore, he laments that everything he has worked to achieve, build, and accumulate in life will be given to someone else who did not work for them and might squander them. Ultimately, the Teacher concludes that the only true enjoyment in life is found in the simple pleasures—eating, drinking, and finding contentment in one’s work, gifts that come from God.
key verse
Eccles 2:22 What does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?
related verse
Mathew 6:19-21 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
