Ecclesiastes 4:7

Contemporary English Version 1995

Once again I saw that nothing on earth makes sense.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:1

I looked again and saw people being mistreated everywhere on earth. They were crying, but no one was there to offer comfort, and those who mistreated them were powerful.

Zechariah 1:6

But my warnings and my words spoken by the prophets caught up with your ancestors. So they turned back to me and said, “Lord All-Powerful, you have punished us for our sins, just as you had planned.”

Psalm 78:33

So he cut their lives short and made them terrified.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Yet a very little food eaten in peace is better than twice as much earned from overwork and chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

For example, some people don't have friends or family. But they are never satisfied with what they own, and they never stop working to get more. They should ask themselves, “Why am I always working to have more? Who will get what I leave behind?” What a senseless and miserable life!