Hahaha…this passage kinda makes me laugh. At first sight, it looks like Solomon is complaining: “There is an evil I have seen under the sun…Folly is set in great dignity, while the rich sit in a lowly place. I have seen servants on horses, While princes walk on the ground like servants.”
Tag: Ecclesiastes
Day 53: Ecclesiastes 10:4
“If the spirit of the ruler rises against you, Do not leave your post; For conciliation pacifies great offenses.”
Retaliation. Revenge. Rejection.
Those are a few things we might feel to a certain level whenever someone else is significantly unhappy with us. This passage uses the example of a ruler expressing dissatisfaction with a subordinate, but the principle in the second half of the verse can be applied to any situation.
Day 52: Ecclesiastes 10:2-3
Where is my heart? Ecclesiastes 10:2 says, “A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart at his left.”
During Bible times, the left hand was seen as bad. Right-handed people were good, and left-handed people had a severe problem. Of course, we know that there is nothing inherently about the left hand, but the cultural view was highly regarded.
Day 51: Ecclesiastes 10:1
One verse, but a compelling one indeed: “Dead flies putrefy
Day 50: Ecclesiastes 9:13-18
Wow, I really enjoyed this passage. To summarize, a small city with a few people in it were besieged by a large army (sounds like the Alamo, eh?).
However, there lived in the city a man who was poor but wise and because of his wisdom (and I assume his cunning), the city figured out a way to thwart the enemy and survive.
