Encontrados 16 resultados para: futility

  • They despised his laws and the covenant which he had made with their ancestors and the warnings which he had given them. Pursuing futility, they themselves became futile through copying the nations round them, although Yahweh had ordered them not to act as they did. (2 Kings 17, 15)

  • I have months of futility assigned to me, nights of suffering to be my lot. (Job 7, 3)

  • Sheer futility, Qoheleth says. Sheer futility: everything is futile! (Ecclesiastes 1, 2)

  • I then reflected on all that my hands had achieved and all the effort I had put into its achieving. What futility it all was, what chasing after the wind! There is nothing to be gained under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 2, 11)

  • Life I have come to hate, for what is done under the sun disgusts me, since all is futility and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 2, 17)

  • Wisdom, knowledge and joy, God gives to those who please him, but on the sinner he lays the task of gathering and storing up for someone else who is pleasing to him. This too is futility and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 2, 26)

  • I see that all effort and all achievement spring from mutual jealousy. This too is futility and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 4, 4)

  • From too many illusions come futility and too much talk. Therefore, fear God. (Ecclesiastes 5, 6)

  • In futility it came, into darkness it departs, and in darkness will its name be buried. (Ecclesiastes 6, 4)

  • Another futile thing that happens on earth: upright people being treated as though they were wicked and wicked people being treated as though they were upright. To me this is one more example of futility. (Ecclesiastes 8, 14)

  • However many years you live, enjoy them all, but remember, the days of darkness will be many: futility awaits you at the end. (Ecclesiastes 11, 8)

  • Sheer futility, Qoheleth says, everything is futile. (Ecclesiastes 12, 8)


“O Senhor nos dá tantas graças e nós pensamos que tocamos o céu com um dedo. Não sabemos, no entanto, que para crescer precisamos de pão duro, das cruzes, das humilhações, das provações e das contradições.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina