Trouvé 9 Résultats pour: chasing

• I have seen everything that is done under the sun: how futile it all is, mere chasing after the wind! (Ecclesiastes 1, 14)

• I have applied myself to understanding philosophy and science, stupidity and folly, and I now realise that all this too is chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 1, 17)

• 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)

• He takes his place at the head of innumerable subjects; but his successors will not think the more kindly of him for that. This too is futile and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 4, 16)

• Better the object seen than the sting of desire: for the latter too is futile and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 6, 9)

• Happy the rich who is found to be blameless and does not go chasing after gold. (Ecclesiasticus 31, 8)