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Friday, July 11, 2025

The end of the matter - Ecclesiastes 10-12

The Folly of a Simpleminded Fool


[20] Furthermore, in your bedchamber do not curse a king, and in your sleeping rooms do not curse a rich man, for a bird of the sky will bring the sound and the winged creature will tell the matter. 
[Ecc 10:20 LSB]

[3] "Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the housetops.
[Luk 12:3 LSB]

 

Cast Your Bread on the Waters

[5] Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones [are formed] in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who works all things. [Ecc 11:5 LSB]

[8] "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who has been born of the Spirit." [Jhn 3:8 LSB]

[9] Be glad, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be merry during the days of young manhood. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the sights of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.
[Ecc 11:9 LSB]

Remember Your Creator in Your Youth

[1] Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days happen and the years draw near in which you will say, "I have no delight in them"; 
[Ecc 12:1 LSB]

[6] [Remember Him] before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the spring is broken and the wheel at the cistern is crushed; 
[7] then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. 
[Ecc 12:6-7 LSB]

[21] Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth? 
[Ecc 3:21 LSB]

 

Fear God and Keep His Commandments

[13] The end of the matter, all [that] has been heard: fear God and keep His commandments, because this is [the end of the matter for] all mankind. 
[14] For God will bring every work to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. [Ecc 12:13-14 LSB]

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