Ecclesiastes 6
McGeeCHAPTER 6This chapter concludes Solomon’s pursuit and enjoyment of wealth in his search for satisfaction.
Ecclesiastes 6:1
A friend told me that when he was in a hotel in Florida, he saw John D. Rockefeller, Sr., sitting and eating his meal. He had just a few little crumbs, some health food, that had been set before him. Over at a side table my friend saw one of the men who worked as a waiter in the hotel sitting with a big juicy steak in front of him. The man who could afford the steak couldn’t eat one; the man who could not afford the steak had one to eat because he worked for the hotel. It is better to have a good appetite than a big bank account!
Ecclesiastes 6:3
The rich man can eat only three meals a day, he can sleep on only one bed at a time, and he cannot live longer than the poor manno matter how many doctors he may haveand he takes nothing with him when he leaves. There is no pocket in a shroud. Job was a rich man, and he said that he had come here with nothing and he was going out the same way. It is rather empty to give one’s life to the pursuit of that which does not bring happiness here and has no value hereafter. Some people spend their lives in this kind of an emptiness.