Ecclesiastes 2:18-26
Pray Every Day
Mary DeMuth
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. This is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day where I have the joy and privilege of praying you through the Bible verse by verse. |
| 0:07.1 | And we're going through a rich book right now by, we think, Solomon, but not completely sure. |
| 0:16.0 | And it's the book of Ecclesiastes. And again, this is one of my favorite books. And I don't know why. It just seems like an odd one to be a favorite, but I really do enjoy it because it kind of boils |
| 0:24.4 | life down to what is most important. And maybe in our scattered world where we have things |
| 0:32.1 | thrown at us all the time, look at this, do this, have this. It's hard to get back to elemental things. And so that's why I like |
| 0:40.1 | this book so much. Today I'm reading from Ecclesiastes chapter 2 versus 18 and following to the end, |
| 0:48.4 | which is the 26. And this is what it says in the world English Bible. |
| 0:57.7 | I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. |
| 1:02.2 | Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? |
| 1:05.7 | Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, |
| 1:10.2 | in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. |
| 1:13.7 | This also is vanity. Therefore, I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor |
| 1:21.0 | in which I had labored under the sun. For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, |
| 1:26.8 | and with skillfulness. Yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness. |
| 1:28.3 | Yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who is not labored for it. |
| 1:33.3 | This is also a vanity and a great evil. |
| 1:36.3 | For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart in which he labors under the sun? |
| 1:43.3 | For all his days are sorrows and his |
| 1:46.5 | travail is grief. Yes, even in the night, his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. There is |
| 1:56.2 | nothing better for a man than he should eat and drink and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. |
| 2:04.1 | This also I saw that it is from the hand of God. For who can eat or who can have enjoyment more than |
| 2:09.9 | I? For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy. But to the sinner he gives |
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