Work — Симфония — New Living Translation

What do people get for all their hard work under the sun?

Anything I wanted, I would take. I denied myself no pleasure. I even found great pleasure in hard work, a reward for all my labors.

Eccl 2:18

18 I came to hate all my hard work here on earth, for I must leave to others everything I have earned.

Eccl 2:19

And who can tell whether my successors will be wise or foolish? Yet they will control everything I have gained by my skill and hard work under the sun. How meaningless!

Eccl 2:20

So I gave up in despair, questioning the value of all my hard work in this world.

Eccl 2:21

Some people work wisely with knowledge and skill, then must leave the fruit of their efforts to someone who hasn’t worked for it. This, too, is meaningless, a great tragedy.

Eccl 2:22

So what do people get in this life for all their hard work and anxiety?

Eccl 2:24

So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God.

Eccl 3:9

What do people really get for all their hard work?

Eccl 3:11

Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

Eccl 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is our lot in life. And no one can bring us back to see what happens after we die.

Eccl 4:6

And yet, “Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind.”

Eccl 5:12

People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich seldom get a good night’s sleep.

Eccl 5:16

And this, too, is a very serious problem. People leave this world no better off than when they came. All their hard work is for nothing — like working for the wind.

Eccl 5:18

Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good. It is good for people to eat, drink, and enjoy their work under the sun during the short life God has given them, and to accept their lot in life.

Eccl 5:19

And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life — this is indeed a gift from God.

Eccl 7:23

I have always tried my best to let wisdom guide my thoughts and actions. I said to myself, “I am determined to be wise.” But it didn’t work.

Eccl 8:15

So I recommend having fun, because there is nothing better for people in this world than to eat, drink, and enjoy life. That way they will experience some happiness along with all the hard work God gives them under the sun.

Eccl 9:10

Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Eccl 10:9

When you work in a quarry, stones might fall and crush you. When you chop wood, there is danger with each stroke of your ax.

Eccl 10:15

Fools are so exhausted by a little work that they can’t even find their way home.

Eccl 10:17

Happy is the land whose king is a noble leader and whose leaders feast at the proper time to gain strength for their work, not to get drunk.

Eccl 12:4

Remember him before the door to life’s opportunities is closed and the sound of work fades. Now you rise at the first chirping of the birds, but then all their sounds will grow faint.

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