Ecclesiastes 2:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then I thought about everything I had done, including the hard work, and it was simply chasing the wind. Nothing on earth is worth the trouble.

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God looked at what he had done. All of it was very good! Evening came and then morning—that was the sixth day.

Remember, life is short! Why did you empty our lives of all meaning?

I have seen it all, and everything is just as senseless as chasing the wind.

Then I decided to find out all I could about wisdom and foolishness. Soon I realized that this too was as senseless as chasing the wind.

What is there to show for all our hard work here on this earth?

What do we gain by all our hard work?

If you love money and wealth, you will never be satisfied with what you have. This doesn't make sense either.

That's terribly unfair. They leave the world just as they came into it. They gained nothing from running after the wind.

But the LORD All-Powerful sends up in flames what nations and people work so hard to gain.

And religion does make your life rich, by making you content with what you have.