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Ecclesiastes 2:15

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Verse 15 of 26

Scripture focus

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:15 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ecclesiastes 2:15

Theological / Devotional

So it happeneth. Sage and fool both die. On the surface there appears to be no distinction.

Was I then more wise? What profit, then, is there in a laborious program of study, “burning the midnight oil”? A man who puts forth strenuous effort in life to meet and solve its problems is as truly dead when he dies as the simpleton, who has merely existed.

This also is vanity. Ambition and effort to advance in life are therefore valueless, a mere passing breath — thus Solomon reasoned. In reality there is no answer to life and all its problems, aside from God. It is only as man grows in divine wisdom, and orders his life in harmony with God’s will, that he finds the true end of existence (see Matt. 6:33).

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