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Sep 22, 2016 · Already we have reached our first fundamental truth: if you live life with your mind focused on life itself, you will find it meaningless. He isn’t suggesting that life has no meaning, but instead that the meaning of life isn’t typically clear—it’s confusing, disorienting, uncontrollable.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Saying that everything is meaningless sounds depressing, but we must keep Solomon’s point of view in mind. This is found in Ecclesiastes 1:14: “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”
Jul 31, 2021 · Much of Ecclesiastes describes the musings of a desperate man who was out of fellowship with God and who tried to find meaning “under the sun,” a humanistic phrase that appears twenty-nine times in the book. Life Under the Sun Life is meaningless apart from God. An “under the sun” existence leaves a person empty.
Oct 3, 2022 · This is found in Ecclesiastes 1:14: “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” The key phrase is under the sun, which is repeated throughout the book. Solomon is sharing an earth-bound perspective.
Apr 17, 2012 · As common as the word, “meaningless” is, the phrase, “under the sun” or “under heaven” is used 32 times in the book’s 12 chapters. It’s even worked its way into our common language: the phrase “there’s nothing new under the sun” actually originally comes from this book (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
Apr 7, 2016 · “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless! What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?” (Ecc. 1:2-3). Solomon, in his old age, has realized the foolishness of his ways: all the things before him are meaningless! The power, the money, the women—even the wisdom itself—is all meaningless.
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Toil Is Meaningless. 17 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. 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish?
