Daily Bible Verse

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Turn to God and be the man you are (or woman)

Turn to God and be the man you are (or woman) – Ecclesiastes 4:1-5

Ecclesiastes 4:1-5

4 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun (upon the earth, man apart from God): and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work (breaking up that which is good) that is done under the sun (upon the earth, man apart from God).

4 Again, I considered all travail (toil: connected to trouble, sorrow), and every right work (inventing, means to accomplish a purpose), that for this a man (ish- a Godly man) is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

kasal in Hebrew and does mean to be foolish but this is a foolishness which is bred from a refusal to look beyond your own understanding

folds his hands – is an expression for laziness

eatheth his own flesh – means self tormenting

Turn to God and be the man you are (or woman)

Ecclesiastes

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