'Person' in the Bible
Next I turned to examine wisdom, insanity, and foolishness, because what can a person do who succeeds the king except what has already been accomplished?
Then I despised everything I had worked for on earth, that is, the things that I will leave to the person who will succeed me.
For sometimes people who strive to obtain wisdom, knowledge, and equity leave everything as an inheritance to a person who never worked for it. This, too, is pointless and greatly troublesome.
For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?
After all, to the person who is good in God's sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner he gives the troublesome task of acquiring and accumulating in order to leave it to someone who is good in the sight of God. This also is pointless and chasing after the wind.
He made everything appropriate in its time. He also placed eternity within them yet, no person can fully comprehend what God is doing from beginning to end.
moreover, every person should eat, drink, and enjoy the benefits of everything that he undertakes, since it is a gift from God.
This is also a painful tragedy: However a person comes, he also departs; so what does he gain as he labors after the wind?
Furthermore, for every person to whom God has given wealth, riches, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept this allotment, and to rejoice in his work this is a gift from God.
Every person works for his own self-interests, but his desires remain unsatisfied.
For what advantage has the wise person over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have in knowing how to face life?
Whatever exists has been named already; people know what it means to be human and a person cannot defeat one who is more powerful than he.
For the wise person thinks carefully when in mourning, but fools focus their thoughts on pleasure.
I have seen it all during my pointless life: both a righteous person who dies while he is righteous, and a wicked person who lives to an old age, while remaining wicked.
Wisdom given as strength to a wise person is better than having ten powerful men in the city.
But things will not go well for the wicked person: he will not lengthen his life like a shadow, since he has no fear before God.
Everyone shares the same experience: a single event affects the righteous, the wicked, the good, the clean, the unclean, whoever sacrifices, and whoever does not sacrifice. As it is with the good person, so also it is with the sinner; as it is with someone who takes an oath, so also it is with someone who fears taking an oath.
Now there was found within it a poor, but wise man. He delivered the city by his wisdom, but not one person remembered that poor man.
Even if a person lives many years, let him enjoy them all, recalling that there will be many days of darkness to come all of which are pointless.
At that time they will fear climbing heights and dangers along the road while the almond tree will blossom, and the grasshopper is weighed down. Desire will cease, because the person goes to his eternal home, and mourners will gather in the marketplace.
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Bible Theasaurus
- Individual (61 instances)
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- Person (1336 instances)
- Somebody (34 instances)
- Someone (466 instances)
- Soul (577 instances)
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