Ecclesiastes 2 - Walkthrough

 Hello! Ecclesiastes 2. Ecclesiastes is a really diffucult, both to read and to accept, book that's also quite "negative" but it is in the Bible after all, and the Truth is often complicated or painful. 

Verse 1: Here, Solomon has said that in his past that he wanted to test himself with pleasure to see what was good.

 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9: He applied things of pleasure: riches, slaves, lavish palaces and building to his life after building or finding those and he became a very rich king. However, he realized all this is too futile and can lead you to folly.

Verse 10 and 11: He says again that pleasures are also meaningless. 

Verse 12: He then considered wisdom, and also folly too and he began to think and analyze about it.

Verse 13: He quickly notices that wisdom is much better rhan folly.

Verse 14: But he also notices, though wisdom is great, both the wise and fools will die, the wise will be eventually forgotten. 

Verse 15 and 16: He thinks that now, wisdom is meaningless. Though this might seem contradictory to the majority of the Book of Proverbs, but it's because wisdom doesn't gurantee eternal life nor does it save somebody's physical life.

Verse 16-26: The last ten verses is about the meaninglessness of toil or work. He realized all work we do is meaningless, since the worldly things we are toiling do hard for are. And when you pass whatever you own to somebody else, they will have control over it, and they might be foolish, anyway. 

That's all for today!

The Verse:

 Then I said to myself,

“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
    What then do I gain by being wise?”
I said to myself,
    “This too is meaningless.” - Ecc 2:15