"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." -- Ecclesiastes 1:2
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. -- Ecclesiastes 2:11
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. -- Ecclesiates 2:17
And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment--wickedness was there, in the place of justice--wickedness was there. I thought in my heart, "God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed." I also thought, "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?" So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him? -- Ecclesiastes 3:16-22
I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning. -- Job 7:16
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. -- Matthew 7:12
Copyright © 1996 Steve Falkenberg