- ECCLESIASTIES ALL THINGS DONE OUT OF ENVY FOR MEN HOW TO
- ECCLESIASTIES ALL THINGS DONE OUT OF ENVY FOR MEN FULL
Ecclesiastes 11:7–8 introduce the idea of God-conscious joy, and then Ecclesiastes 11:9–11 and beyond unpack how to preserve God-conscious joy. I want to look today at the Preacher’s call to rejoice and to consider how he thought joy was possible in this cursed, crooked, and confusing world. Yet even in the midst of it, he could still call people to rejoice always in the pleasures of life and to do so recognizing them as a gift of God. Unstable jobs, orphans, judicial corruption, blown tires, broken legs, sex-trafficking, leaky faucets, failed adoptions, monthly bills, envy, project deadlines, rainy vacations, broken marriages, chronic back pain, pride, pornography, slippery roads, severed relationships, selfishness, racism, bee stings, abortions, and the ever present death of loved ones. We live in a crooked world that we cannot by any level of effort make straight (Ecclesiastes 1:15 7:13). (Ecclesiastes 2:17–18) Sustaining God-Conscious Joy For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind. (Ecclesiastes 8:16–17)Īnd I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one’s eyes see sleep, then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Yet the Preacher of Joy was also a realist, who felt great evil and stood vexed and frustrated by his inability to understand all of God’s purposes. Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart. I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful. There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. Perhaps more than any other voice in the Old Testament, the speaker in Ecclesiastes was a Preacher of Joy: I believe the Preacher has a message for us today that is very practical regarding our pursuit of pleasures in God. I have felt this way many times, but in this book I have also found amazing fuel for stoking fires of joy in my soul that have carried me through seasons of pleasure and deep pain. If ever you have read the questions, confessions, and exhortations in Ecclesiastes, you likely would echo Peter regarding Paul’s letters that “there are some things in them that are hard to understand” (2 Peter 3:16).
ECCLESIASTIES ALL THINGS DONE OUT OF ENVY FOR MEN FULL
King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scanīecause the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.īecause sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.īecause punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.īecause sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.īecause sentence hath not been done an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
"Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Ecclesiastes 8:11 KJV Copy Print Similar Verses Saveīecause sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sonnes of men is fully set in them to doe euill. 14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity. 12Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: 13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow because he feareth not before God. 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. 9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. 8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
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