17 And to Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
(A)of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
(B)cursed is the ground because of you;
    (C)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

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20 For the creation (A)was subjected to futility, not willingly, but (B)because of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that (C)the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that (D)the whole creation (E)has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

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29 and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground (A)that the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief[a] from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for rest

The earth lies (A)defiled
    under its inhabitants;
for (B)they have transgressed the laws,
    violated the statutes,
    broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore (C)a curse devours the earth,
    and its inhabitants (D)suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
    and few men are left.

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22 What has a man from (A)all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? 23 For (B)all his days are full of sorrow, and his (C)work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.

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33 I have said these things to you, that (A)in me you may have peace. (B)In the world you will have (C)tribulation. But (D)take heart; (E)I have overcome the world.”

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It is in vain that you rise up early
    and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious (A)toil;
    for he gives to his (B)beloved (C)sleep.

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23 But this command I gave them: (A)‘Obey my voice, and (B)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. (C)And walk in all the way that I command you, (D)that it may be well with you.’ 24 (E)But they did not obey or incline their ear, (F)but walked in their own counsels and (G)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and (H)went backward and not forward.

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17 Moreover, all his days he (A)eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.

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Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

14 “Man who is (A)born of a woman
    is (B)few of days and (C)full of trouble.

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19 Now we know that whatever (A)the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, (B)so that every mouth may be stopped, and (C)the whole world may be held accountable to God.

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26 But his master answered him, ‘You (A)wicked and (B)slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

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17 “How often is it that (A)the lamp of the wicked is put out?
    That their calamity comes upon them?
    That God[a] distributes pains in his anger?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:17 Hebrew he

For affliction does not come from the dust,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
but man is (A)born to trouble
    as the sparks fly upward.

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16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (A)you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[a] of it you (B)shall surely die.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:17 Or when you eat

22 He said to him, (A)‘I will condemn you with your own words, (B)you wicked servant! You knew that I was (C)a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

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45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, (A)you did not do it to me.’

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17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for (A)all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was (A)vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing (B)to be gained under the sun.

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13 And I (A)applied my heart[a] to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy (B)business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is (C)vanity[b] and a striving after wind.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:13 The Hebrew term denotes the center of one's inner life, including mind, will, and emotions
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:14 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)
  3. Ecclesiastes 1:14 Or a feeding on wind; compare Hosea 12:1 (also in Ecclesiastes 1:17; 2:11, 17, 26; 4:4, 6, 16; 6:9)