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Eccles. 3:1–8 Poem: A Time for Everything. There is an appropriate occasion for every human event or activity.
Eccles. 3:6 a time to lose. To give up looking for a lost item.
Eccles. 3:8 a time to hate. Righteous anger is legitimate under the appropriate circumstances.
Eccles. 3:9–15 Fear God, the Sovereign One. The vanity of life causes the Preacher to reflect on what is permanent and lasting: the sovereign God of the universe.
Eccles. 3:11 The Preacher can see that God has made everything beautiful in its time. The problem is that God has also placed eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. God has given the Preacher a desire to understand all of life, but God has also limited his ability to do so.
Eccles. 3:12–13 Rather than becoming resentful about what God has not granted human beings, one should enjoy the gifts that God has given.
Eccles. 3:14 The short-lived “vanities” of this world reveal all the more clearly the enduring work of God, to which nothing can be added.
Eccles. 3:16–4:16 Second Catalog of “Vanities.” The Preacher returns to examining more of life’s vanities.
Eccles. 3:16–4:3 The fact that people die is a further aspect of “vanity.”
Eccles. 3:16–17 The fall of mankind affects all human relationships. One may suffer wickedness at the hand of other human beings. But this can be endured if one understands that God will judge the righteous and the wicked.
Eccles. 3:18–19 The children of man . . . are but beasts in the sense that both human beings and animals die.
Eccles. 3:21 For the Preacher, the human spirit is a mysterious thing. While he affirms that the spirit returns to God when a person dies, he does not know how it comes to reside in the human body in the first place.
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