Ecclesiastes 5-6, Questions

Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 — Guarding Your Steps, Your Words, and Your Vows

All right, Ecclesiastes chapter 5 and 6, hear the word of the Lord. Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better Than to offer the sacrifice of fools for they do not know That they are doing evil.

Be not rash with your mouth. Nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before god for god is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes with much business and a fool's voice with many words.

When you vow a vow to god do not delay Paying it. For he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow that you should vow and not pay. Let not your mouth lead you into sin and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake.

Why should god be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands. For when dreams increase and words grow many there is vanity. But god is the one you must fear. If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness do not be amazed at the matter.

For the high official is watched by a higher and there are yet higher ones over them. But this is gain for a land in every way a king committed to cultivated fields. He who loves money will not be satisfied with money nor he who loves wealth with his income.

This also is vanity. When goods increase. They increase who eat them. And what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? Sweet is the sleep of a laborer whether he eats little or much. But the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:8-17 — Money, Injustice, and the Grievous Evil of Hoarded Wealth

There's a grievous evil that i've seen under the sun. Riches were kept by their owner to his hurt. And those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.

As he came from his mother's womb. He shall go again naked as he came and shall take nothing for his toil. That he may carry away in his hand. This also is a grievous evil just as he came so shall he go.

And what gain is there to him who toils for the wind? Moreover all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger behold. What I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and to drink and to find Enjoyment and all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that god has given him.

But this is his lot. Everyone also to whom god has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil. This is the gift of god. For he will not much remember the days of his life because god keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

There's an evil that i've seen under the sun and it lies heavy on mankind a man To whom god gives wealth possessions and honor so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them.

This is vanity. It's a grievous evil. If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many. But his soul is not satisfied with life's good things and He also has no burial.

I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness and in darkness. His name is covered moreover. It has not seen the sun or known anything yet. It finds rest rather than he.

Even though he should live a thousand years twice over yet. Enjoy. No good. Do not all go to the one place. All the toil of man is for his mouth. Yet his appetite is not satisfied. For what advantage has the wise man over the fool?

And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living? Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite. This also is vanity. And a striving after wind. Whatever has come to be has already been named.

And it is known what man is and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he. The more words the more vanity. And what is the advantage to man? For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow.

For who can tell man? What will be after him? Under the sun. May the lord add his blessings the reading of his holy word. Well, I don't know about you, but I have some questions. I'd like to know who's going to be the starting quarterback for alabama this season.

You don't care about that. A lot of the questions people care about aren't the important questions. Many people spend their lives trying to answer questions that are just Completely unimportant even when it comes to the bible.

A lot of people are asking The wrong questions. They're trying to get the bible to answer questions that it doesn't. Like how to attract a spouse or how to make my child a millionaire something like that.

Now some preachers try to use the bible to answer those questions for the sake of drawing in a crowd. But what you win them with? Is what you win them to? And so people who are one with seeker sensitive Topical sermons, you know about the things people really care about their felt needs.

Answering those questions that they want to answer if you win them with that. What you win them to is that when it comes to really learning the word of god what it says about the kingdom of god. Justification the messiah predestination.

They aren't interested they're going like wait, I didn't sign up for this i'm not there's not my questions. But I have questions. What about you? You got questions. It's good to have questions. Actually, it shows that you're paying attention.

It shows that you're interested. Good teachers like questions from students. Now when I was in seminary, I took a class in christian education that is teaching the bible teaching theology how to teach.

There were about 40 students in this class and the professor was big on trying to get all the students involved. You're making comments asking questions and I was seated right up front in this amphitheater style classroom.

When the student next to me a japanese man asked a question and the professor Commented yes answered the question and they commented that asian students tended not to talk as much as the others. And that he was glad that this japanese man had just spoken.

And then he said as of that moment. Every student has commented or asked a question except for one me. And he said It's good for students to to ask questions or comment, isn't it john? And I went. And then he asked me if I had anything to add you have anything to add john.

And I went. And then he asked why not? And I went. And everybody laughed. One thing I've heard a lot about in the past few years. About covid about vaccines. About men who say they're women or vice versa.

Other things. Is that some say with exasperation? Well deserved exasperation. You can't ask questions. Why can't we ask questions? We just got to accept it. You know, where did it come from? Is it really that dangerous?

Is it necessary to close schools? Are kids really at risk? Does remote learning work for small children? You don't know the answer to that question. You probably shouldn't be a teacher. Do masks really work?

Can someone change his sex? Is she he? Who should be able to vote? What you've heard is that some people are just hostile to to the questions. They're saying these things and You just have to accept them.

They're Unquestionable their assertions have to be unquestionably Accepted then people will complain over and over. I've heard this same phrase, you know, it's it's like it's a religion. You can't question the dogma now that annoys me.

Not because I don't agree that there's a lot of nonsense now that's being Asserted that we're just not supposed to question just accept it. I am annoyed by that because at least for the true god the true religion.

You can't ask questions. You know, I hear that it's like a religion. Stop putting down religion. You know, please there's some there's some good religion that actually invites you to ask questions. And these sometimes like that professor at seminary god wants you asking questions.

He's asking you to ask questions like here in these two chapters. We read how many questions were they did you notice? And we're supposed to be asking these. It's better to be asking questions. Like if why is life like this?

What's worth working for? What's worth depriving myself of some short-term pleasure? Now what what is worth that? Better to ask that those questions. Than to be too busy. Or just too uninterested. Too occupied absorbed by your work by your pursuit of money and success and the things and the rat race to ask questions.

So What are your questions? Here Ecclesiastes. We have some of them. I'm not gonna even tell you how many I didn't even try to make them rhyme or alliterate five points and they rhyme they alliterate precious.

It's impressive how much thought I put into it, isn't it? I'm not gonna even do that today. It's ecclesiastes after all why spend my time Making up alliterating or rhyming titles that you're just gonna forget.

Anyway, that's why chase after that wind. So forget that here we have questions first. There's a question about words. Why should god be angry at your words? Guard your steps in verse one by guarding your words you come to the house of god here in ecclesiastes.

That means to the temple where the priests were supposed to do some teaching instruct people in the law how to obey god. And for us is the house of god is is the church now. It's not the building. It's wherever we meet.

For us it happens to be a gym. When you come to the church you watch your steps by watching your words now I particularly gotta watch my words. Because I say a lot of them. And that's why I carefully prepare mine instead of just speaking off the cuff.

You watch your step you draw near that is the god of verse one by listening draw near to listen. Doing that he says is better than the sacrifice of fools. If you don't listen Here you might sacrifice the wrong thing.

You might sacrifice in the wrong way and it's not a sacrifice that god accepts and he says they they give these wrong sacrifices they Remember from first samuel to obey is better than sacrifice. They give these sacrifice of fools and they don't even know he says That they're doing evil and yet they're being religious about it to listen and obey Is better than sacrifice better than a sacrifice of fools.

Now there's people in church culture today who have no idea that they should be listening. Oh, they understand they probably won't be talking much at least not in the service that they'll be passive and quiet and well.

They get to sing but besides that they don't talk. But they aren't really listening. We had one person had one person once who had been taught this fiction. In place of the bible that the bible taught a succession of ancient kingdoms, which after there's a long gap.

It's almost over. It's always almost over. It's going to come anytime now. It's on that long gap is almost up from the succession of kingdoms and there's a long gap. Which will then lead to a revived coming very very soon a revived roman empire.

My youth the european common market had 10 nations. Aha. It's the beast with 10 heads. Well now it has like 27 They they never kind of admit. Hey, we were wrong about that. Maybe we should go back and rethink our whole Theology.

Well, the person who was raised on that and I could see is I was describing the prophecy from daniel about this series Of empires which that part is actually true. There is a succession of kingdoms. He was eager.

He was eating that up. He knew the series is the babylonians and the persians and the greeks and the roman empire. There's no one really cares all about that stuff because they're interested in what's they're sure is going to happen next this revived roman empire.

And I could see that he was he was just. He was really into it leaning forward. He's staring intently. Me paying close attention and then he he was sure of what was next. The revived roman empire coming soon with an antichrist at the top right all that stuff and when I ended though from daniel with the old roman empire.

Saying that it was all fulfilled at the first coming of christ. He's kind of slinked back like he had shrunk. Looking down at the floor. He's bored. Because I wasn't Answering the right questions he thought.

Because he wasn't listening. Instead of being rash with your words instead of spouting off instead of being hasty. Even if just with your heart just in your own mind to give your opinions in verse two instead of being so full of your opinions.

You refuse to listen remember he says god is in heaven. He sees the big picture. He's answering the right questions and you are on earth. You are under the sun. You're small. You're limited. You're so ignorant that without god's word.

You don't even know the right questions to ask. Ever come across some field you don't even know what. You don't even know what the questions are to ask. How does You know if I was trying to be if I try to learn the guitar.

I don't even know what questions to start with. Therefore because of that let your words and your opinions be few. Dreams illusions that is the illusion of knowing something when you really don't gives you much he says business.

It doesn't mean the good kind of business that can make you a profit means busyness makes you chase after the wind. Keep running like a hamster on a wheel and never getting anywhere in verse three a fool comes.

With many words. It's characteristic of a fool a lot of words. How does god feel about the fool's voice? Watch your words. If you vow a vow to god in verse 4 like from judges verse 7 or in psalm 76. Did you notice that?

Those I think it's the 11th verse. If you make a vow you keep it. But if you vow a vow to god that is you make a promise to god if you god will give me. Whatever you're asking him for i'll give you. Whatever more money.

Get more involved in church. And then if he does what you ask him in your vow. Pay it like hannah remember she Paid her own son. If you make a pledge to support some missionary. Or to give to some ministry.

Pay it. Do what you pledged you would do. I once had a man who pledged that he would raise so much money for me to take a trip to singapore. And he even printed a certificate In which he promised To get the money from my trip to singapore and he said that if others fell short.

That he had make sure that I got the money that he would pay out of his own pocket. He was making a firm promise in print. And then when something in the church didn't go the way he liked he reneged he never paid a cent.

If you make a vow a pledge a commitment, you must keep your word that fact Should help you keep watch over your words. If you know you absolutely must fulfill your promises then you'll be very careful about what you promise.

Don't delay paying your vows because at the end of verse 4 god has no pleasure in fools. God is anger. He is regret. He is delight and pleasure. Fools here who are people who make vows they don't keep.

Don't give him pleasure. They're foolish because they don't understand the purpose of vows of promises or like wedding vows commitments covenants Are just assurances that i'll raise so much money. What's what's the purpose of all that fools don't know.

Fools think it's to look good to sound good. The truth is we make commitments when we feel like making them. So that we will keep them when we don't feel like keeping them. We don't make them because we like the sound of the words forsaking all others till death do us part because.

You know, I want to be seen as the one who raised the money for the trip. But now I don't care about that. So i'm not going to keep my word. That's a fool. We make commitments when we feel like making them so that We will keep them.

When we don't feel like keeping them. So it's better. In verse 5 not to vow. If you're not going to keep it now, it's okay to vow. But if you do make a promise you better keep it. But if you're not going to keep it don't don't make it in the first place.

Don't make the promise if you're not going to follow through that way in verse 6. You're not letting your mouth lead you into sin. There would be no sin if the man hadn't promised to raise money for the trip to singapore.

If he hadn't promised. And then hadn't done it. Well, there's no sin. There's no expectation. There's no obligation. There's no sin, but when he promised. Complete with a certificate to prove it. And then he walked away that Was sin.

So don't make promises you aren't going to keep. Don't say after you promised. Well, that was just a mistake. I was manipulated. I was carried away by my feelings, whatever. No. There's a dis excuse is not to keep it.

It's too late. You're bound to keep your promises. I have a question first question in verse 6. Why should god be angry at your voice. That's a question ever thought about that. Some people want to know when's the when's the rapture going to be.

Well, here's the question god's more interested in why? Why should you be angry? Why should god god's saying why should I be angry at your voice now? He's not just here. He's not just not taking pleasure in you.

If you're a promise breaker. You're actually making him angry. Your many words your voice is getting on his nerves. You ever heard somebody's voice gets on your nerves. Well, this is what what kind of voice gets on god's nerves so to speak god doesn't really have nerves but you know my point.

It's when you don't keep your promises. And so he'll destroy he promises there and verses 6 and 7. He'll destroy whatever you make your business your family your reputation. And verse 7 dreams that is illusions your fantasy life what you dream of.

They increase. You dream of being rich you dream of being successful. You dream of being widely regarded. They increase and that's increasing your busyness as you're running after this thing. You're dreaming of and as you're dreaming of it.

You're saying all kinds of words and making all kinds of promises. You don't keep like that hamster on a wheel you're working and working and your words grow many. You're talking too much because If you don't keep your word talk is cheap.

That is vanity. The key word in ecclesiastes vanity emptiness is vapor. We're seeing the vapor somebody vaping and just there for a second it just disappears into the air. That's what a lot of people are living for something that's just There for a second disappearing.

You can't nothing to grab hold of and so the question why should god Be angry at your voice. Be afraid of that. God is the one you must fear. The one who will hold you to account for every careless word you utter now.

Ecclesiastes 5:8-20 — The Vanity of Loving Money and the Gift of Enjoyment

I have another question. I Don't have a title for it because that's chasing after the wind. But starting in verse 8 we have another question. What advantage are you getting? If you see oppression somewhere.

The poor are downtrodden. And justice and righteousness are being violated. Some government is just crushing people. Well, don't be amazed at that. It's an evil bureaucracy at work. The leviathan trying to control all of life.

The bureaucracy enforces the edicts from on high. To oppress the people and one official near the top. Can force the bureaucrats under him. To apply the suppressive edict whatever it is to the bureaucrats under him and so on and so on until it crutches people.

A little over three years ago was closing down churches. I was sympathetic at first, you know, 15 days to slow the spread. Okay, 15 days. That's not bad. It's two weeks of two services for us. That we cancel that's not really closing down.

Right? Most a lot of most people take about two weeks vacation. They can bear away so we take a vacation all at the same time. I'm glad we didn't fall for it, by the way. Partly, thanks to shannon. We did try to keep the the regulation, you know from on high to keep fewer than 10 people.

Trying to abide by that regulation. But when 15 days had 30 more days added to it and then indefinitely. And the local dollar general is allowed to have over 100 people. In half our floor space and about a quarter of our ceiling space, but somehow we're restricted to 10 now that doesn't make any sense.

So I thought we're not doing this anymore. If the county wants to keep us under 10 people here. They'll have to send deputies and stand at the door and enforce it themselves. I'm not being their bureaucrat.

Then thanks to our system of separation of powers. Our caswell county sheriff openly stated that he's not going to enforce the governor's regulation against church's meeting. I know it's good for him.

And they'll only the only one in our system. Over the sheriff is the voters. What is an advantage in verse 9. Is when the king Is the government for us is committed to? Cultivated fields for us and prosperity productivity flourishing.

Yes, we like cultivated fields. We like busy stores with lots of customers making big orders leaving big tips bonuses. Raises, it's good for the government to be about that. That's to our advantage. It's to our advantage if they can be like that.

For cultivated fields or at least get out of our way so that we can cultivate our own fields. But if that's what you love. If that's what life is all about for you. Cultivated fields profits business.

I have a question for you. Here's another question. When will you be satisfied. When will your income be enough. And so this is enough money coming in. I'm fine. You offer you a raise. That's all right.

I don't need it. You can keep your money. I'm satisfied with what I got. When will you say that's all I need. I've saved up all the money. I need i'm just gonna relax. Do other things. When will your income be enough?

When is enough enough? John, d rockefeller the first american billionaire was asked by a reporter. How much money is enough? He replied Just a little more. In verse 10 we're told he who loves money will not be satisfied with money nor he who loves wealth with his income.

It's not that money or riches are bad. But that you should get rid of your money if you're really spiritual like some medieval monks thought. Wealth is not the problem here. It is he who loves money. He who loves wealth.

Our desires are the problem. It's what we love. The love of money is a treadmill on which you run and run and you never get anywhere. It's a trap. That never lets you get enough. And so at the end of verse 10 it is.

It's vanity. It's that vapor again. That that mist is there and then just dissipates. It tantalizes you with all the things you can get with it. The nice house and the luxury cars the watches the purses the vacations the gadgets the subscriptions.

But in verse 11 when goods increase. You got a lot of stuff. They increase who eat them. That is money is a magnet for false friends. If you get rich. You'll have a lot of hangers on. And you won't know they're just hangers on.

Until you lose your money and then they disappear. So what advantage there's the question what advantage? Has their owner the owner of all this stuff. The rich owner is all that he needs. What is what's his advantage over other people but to see?

Them with his eyes he gets to look at all this stuff, but what's what's the use of that? A rich young hedonist said, you know, you buy a luxury car. Like an ashton martin or a bugatti or a lamborghini you buy it to show off.

That the other guy can't buy it. I'm thinking what's the advantage of that? You get rich so you can eat a lot. And then you can't sleep because you're worrying about all your stuff about whether your stocks are crashing.

And meanwhile the hard-working roofer. Up driving in screws in 90 degree heat all day. Well, he sleeps sweetly at night. So what's the advantage of giving your life? To be rich. That's a good question.

I have another question. What game do you get for working hard for? For wind. For vanity. For vapor. And verse 13. There's a grievous evil use that phrase at least three times in this passage a grievous evil an evil that makes you grieve.

You can see it under the sun here on this earth here and now in this world. We live in the evil is when riches are kept. They're they're hoarded. They're saved up by their owner to his hurt. Otherwise, he would have been better off not saving not working hard and saving the money to his heart.

He worked hard for it he saved up and then he lost it in some business venture. Maybe you opened a restaurant. Or a shop that sells amish goods or a music store. Or invested in rental houses or apartments or in stocks or cryptocurrency or like me.

You work fast food in warehouses for four summers saving up every cent. You could to drive all the way to california and you put it all in a seminary education. And then you lose it all. Store goes bankrupt.

The rental properties don't make enough. They're foreclosed on they're closed up. Stock market crashes. Crypto becomes worthless. You can't get a job with your expensive education and then you have to go back To the fast food jobs to pay off the student debt.

That's a grievous evil. You can't support your family. As in verse 14, he's the father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand. What's he what's his gain from everything that he worked so hard for? What's what's the game?

He worked hard. He lost it all. Nothing no game. In verse 15 as he came from his mother's womb, he shall go again. Naked as he came and he shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.

Old Joker saying goes Horses never have u-hauls behind them. You don't get to take anything. What's his game again in verse 16, it's a grievous evil an evil that makes you grieve. The question what gain is there for him who toils for the wind is zero nothing.

He eats in darkness. Because he stayed up so late. He's working all day long. And so we only finally gets to eat dinner at night. He gets vexation. That is trouble. He has sickness and anger. He's just angry that life didn't turn out Happily like he wanted to.

The question is why would you live your life for that? I have another question. What are you supposed to do then? Okay, not waste your life on always pushing to make yourself make more money get more more dollars more cash more things not love wealth.

Not make empty promises. But positively then. What are you supposed to do? That's a big question. Verse 18 behold. It was look see pay attention to this see what is good and fitting eat and drink and find enjoyment in your toil.

Don't spend your life always hoping. Something else will make you happy. I'm doing this for now, but eventually i'm going to get something. They'll make me happy like some people say we're 50 years. For save up money and only get 10 years of retirement and then you die.

How horrible life that is. Well, yeah. Don't live like that. Enjoy what you do now. Don't live just to make a little more money a better, you know, hoping to Get a better meal a better house a better city.

God has given you work. He says under the sun. God's given it to you here and now. And he's given you only a few days to live. They will seem very few. When you come to the end. You will look back you can live to 90 years old and you will look back and think that life flew by.

That's your lot. That's the straw you drew so enjoy. Don't wait till retirement or when you can have this or that or some Accomplishment or graduate or married or whatever? Find enjoyment now. You might as well notice.

He says find Enjoyment because it's better than losing enjoyment, isn't it? Well, that's so obvious. Yeah. Some of them have missed the obvious things. Better find it than lose it now that you have to find enjoyment.

Implies that sometimes it will take some looking. It's not just laying there out in the open. There's enjoyments obvious. No, sometimes enjoyment is hiding. But find it. It's there somewhere. And if in verse 19 god has given you wealth and possessions now, hopefully you don't love wealth and possessions.

Helping you to spend your whole life on the on the hamster wheel of chasing all that stuff. But you've been given it anyway and then. You get the power to enjoy it. Notice it takes a power to enjoy wealth and possession.

We think it's just automatic. Well, sure i'll enjoy if I get that house. If I get that car if I get these vacations. I'll enjoy it for sure. If you can't enjoy what you have now. You're not going to enjoy it when you're wealthy and powerful or what if you have everything you think you want you won't.

You have the power now to enjoy. Get the power to enjoy. Your wealth and your things now. Now money cannot buy a lot of things. It can't even buy the ability to enjoy money. Money can buy a bed but not sleep.

Books But not brains. A meal but not a feast. Employees But not friends. A house But not a home. Health care But not health locks But not peace. Luxury But not love. Amusements But not joy. A church building But not a church.

A crucifix But not a savior. To accept your lot. Whether you're rich Or not so rich. For it is the gift of god. You glorify the giver when his good gifts. Give you joy. That's one reason we say thanks before a meal to god to remind ourself enjoy this meal.

Enjoy it. God has given it to you. Don't think of it as like putting fuel in a car. Just something you got to do to keep going. No enjoy god's gifts. You glorify the giver when his good gifts give you joy.

If you have the ability to find enjoyment then in verse 20 when you come to the end. When you reach that old age and you're near the end you're looking back on this life that's flown by. You won't so much remember all the toil and the disappointments and the people who made commitments to you and reneged the bad ventures.

The losses the frustrations the whatever it is about your own work. Do you wish you would go away? The unanswered questions. You won't remember All that. If you have the power to enjoy you'll forget all that because god will have kept you occupied with joy in your heart.

Ecclesiastes 6:1-11 — The Evil of Inability to Enjoy and the Limits of Human Toil

The evil that is the flip side starting in chapter 6 verse 1 here under the sun the evil that lies heavy on us. If we if we lack the ability to find enjoyment. It like that's an evil lying heavy. It's oppressing us.

It's pushing us down the inability to find enjoyment. We can't make a house a home or a meal a feast. When we go to the beach, the only thing we can do is get annoyed by the sand or the sunburn. When the glass is always half empty.

And every time you eat or you drink something you think I've had so much better before this other place makes so much better. It's always something better always something to criticize when you look at flowers, but all you can see is the weeds.

There are some people in verse 2 to whom god gives Wealth possessions and honor so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires. Yet god does not give him power to enjoy them. Notice by the way. Did you notice the sovereignty of god and all that god gives?

The wealth and the honor and the possessions. The things the car and the furs and What everything you want? And god gives the power to enjoy that or maybe he doesn't. God gives the wealth. And the power to enjoy to some people he gives the wealth but not The ability to enjoy and we can continue this.

For some people god does not give wealth but gives them the power to enjoy what little they have. So eventually someone else for those who have everything the rich. Who have all they want all the money?

But not the power to enjoy if god gives it to someone else. Maybe strangers maybe estranged children. Inheritors. And they end up enjoying it. That's vanity. It's it's vapor. It's a grievous evil. Now the example of verse 3 is a man who fathers a hundred children lives a long life, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things.

What's the use of that? Having the things but not enjoying them. No one comes to his funeral not even his hundred children because no one cares. He dies unnoticed unlamented and unfulfilled. He'd have been better off.

He says here being stillborn. And we grieve for the stillborn because we grieve for ourselves that we lack them, but the stillborn never saw a world full of Exertion striving for things empty exertion that ends up with nothing.

Not like this man. Lived so long had all he want worked hard. But ends up with nothing because it. You know the stillborn would have had to work so hard for nothing for vapor. Which is what this man got.

The stillborn at least don't see all the striving just chasing. It's after nothing. They don't waste their life. The wealthy the long-lived the successful man with a big family, but no enjoyment and no one who cares he ends in darkness.

And like the stillborn his name is forgotten. Even if you could live 2 000 years. If you didn't enjoy the good things you've been given. It's a vapor life. You still got nothing from living. Then he says do not all go to the same place they all go to the grave.

Don't they he asked that's a question. We all know the answer to that question. Have a bunch more questions a lot of questions. I don't know if you're going to answer them though in verse 7 all the toil of a man is for his mouth.

Yet his appetite is not satisfied. It's an endless cycle of getting up early. Going to work so we can get the money so I can eat so I can get up early and work and eat all over. Again, our appetite is never fulfilled.

Always driving us but never getting to any destination. What's the use of that? Answer me that we're here to get wise. To learn god's word to grow. I hope that's why you're here verse 8 what advantages the wise.