Fondare 50 Risultati per: Futile
a person is quite alone -- no child, no brother; and yet there is no end to his efforts, his eyes can never have their fill of riches. For whom, then, do I work so hard and grudge myself pleasure? This too is futile, a sorry business. (Ecclesiastes 4, 8)
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)
No one who loves money ever has enough, no one who loves luxury has any income; this, too, is futile. (Ecclesiastes 5, 9)
suppose someone has received from God riches, property, honours -- nothing at all left to wish for; but God does not give the chance to enjoy them, and some stranger enjoys them. This is futile, and grievous suffering too. (Ecclesiastes 6, 2)
Better the object seen than the sting of desire: for the latter too is futile and chasing after the wind. (Ecclesiastes 6, 9)
The more we say, the more futile it is: what good can we derive from it? (Ecclesiastes 6, 11)
And who knows what is best for someone during life, during the days of futile life which are spent like a shadow? Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 6, 12)
For like the crackling of thorns under the cauldron is the laughter of fools: and that too is futile. (Ecclesiastes 7, 6)
In my futile life, I have seen everything: the upright person perishing in uprightness and the wicked person surviving in wickedness. (Ecclesiastes 7, 15)
And again, I have observed the wicked carried to their graves, and people leaving the holy place and, once out in the city, forgetting how the wicked used to behave; how futile this is too! (Ecclesiastes 8, 10)
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)
Yes, I have applied myself to all this and experienced all this to be so: that is to say, that the upright and the wise, with their activities, are in the hands of God. We do not understand either love or hate, where we are concerned, both of them are futile. And for all of us is reserved a common fate, for the upright and for the wicked, for the food and for the bad; whether we are ritually pure or not, whether we offer sacrifice or not: it is the same for the good and for the sinner, for someone who takes a vow, as for someone who fears to do so. (Ecclesiastes 9, 1)
