Digging Deep for Wisdom | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | August 30, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I saw all that God has done. |
| 0:03.7 | Ecclesiastes 8, verse 17. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:13.0 | Digging deep for wisdom was written and read by Tom Felton. |
| 0:22.1 | Ecclesiastes chapter 8, verses 14 through 17. |
| 0:27.3 | There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth, the righteous who get what |
| 0:32.8 | the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless. So I commend |
| 0:41.7 | the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat |
| 0:47.9 | and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun. |
| 0:57.0 | When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth, |
| 1:03.0 | people getting no sleep day or night, then I saw all that God has done. |
| 1:08.0 | No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts |
| 1:13.2 | to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot |
| 1:20.1 | really comprehend it. Digging Deep for Wisdom. |
| 1:35.5 | A Florida construction crew working on a $42 million drain project unearthed a valuable treasure. |
| 1:41.5 | Deep in the soil, they found a well-preserved fishing boat from the 1800s. |
| 1:46.6 | The vessel contained interesting artifacts, including part of a kerosene lamp, drinking cups made from coconut shells, and coins. The ship is being studied with the hope |
| 1:53.9 | it will provide details of what life was like in that region more than 100 years ago. It's more |
| 2:00.5 | than just the vessel itself. It's this reminder of |
| 2:04.2 | everyday people, said one maritime archaeologist. By digging deep, knowledge and wisdom were |
| 2:11.1 | gained. Ecclesiastes contains great treasures of wisdom as we study it, ancient wisdom reflecting on the |
| 2:19.3 | everyday events of that time and ours as well. Solomon reveals how a wise heart will know |
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