Pengkhotbah 2:11

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ketika aku meneliti segala pekerjaan yang telah dilakukan tanganku dan segala usaha yang telah kulakukan untuk itu dengan jerih payah, lihatlah, segala sesuatu adalah kesia-siaan dan usaha menjaring angin; memang tak ada keuntungan di bawah matahari.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ketika aku meneliti segala pekerjaan yang telah dilakukan tanganku dan segala usaha yang telah kulakukan untuk itu dengan jerih payah, lihatlah, segala sesuatu adalah kesia-siaan dan usaha menjaring angin; memang tak ada keuntungan di bawah matahari.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then sayde I thus in my heart: Nowe go to, I will take myne ease, and haue good dayes: But lo, that is vanitie also. ² Insomuch that I saide vnto the man geuen to laughter, thou art mad: and to mirth, what doest thou? ³ So I thought in my heart to geue my fleshe vnto wine, and agayne to apply my mynde vnto wisdome, and to comprehende foolishnesse: vntyll the tyme that among all the thynges which are vnder the sunne, I myght see what were best for men to do so long as they liue vnder heauen. ⁴ I made gorgious faire workes: I builded my houses, and planted vineyardes. ⁵ I made me orchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner of fruites. ⁶ I made pooles of water, to water the greene and fruitfull trees withall. ⁷ I bought seruauntes and maydens, and had a great housholde: As for cattel and sheepe, I had more substaunce of them then all they that were before me in Hierusalem. ⁸ I gathered together siluer and golde, and the chiefe treasures of kynges and landes: I haue prouided me men singgers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, and women taken captiues. ⁹ And I was greater and in more worship then all my predecessours in Hierusalem: For wisdome remayned with me. ¹⁰ And loke whatsoeuer myne eyes desired, I let them haue it: and wherin soeuer my heart delited or had any pleasure, I withhelde it not from it: Thus my heart reioyced in all that I did, and this was my portion of all my trauayle.

Bible Verse Review
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I looked: Ecclesiastes 1:14, Genesis 1:31, Exodus 39:43, 1 John 2:16, 1 John 2:17

behold: Ecclesiastes 2:17-23, Ecclesiastes 1:3, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Habakkuk 2:13, 1 Timothy 6:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:17 - cursed 2 Chronicles 7:11 - all that came Psalms 39:5 - verily Psalms 119:96 - I have seen Proverbs 14:13 - General Proverbs 15:16 - great Proverbs 27:20 - so Ecclesiastes 1:2 - General Ecclesiastes 1:8 - full Ecclesiastes 1:17 - I perceived Ecclesiastes 3:9 - General Ecclesiastes 3:22 - nothing Ecclesiastes 4:16 - this Ecclesiastes 5:10 - this Ecclesiastes 6:9 - this Jeremiah 2:13 - broken cisterns

Cross-References

Genesis 10:7
And the children of Chus: Seba, and Hauilah, and Sabthah, and Raamah, and Sabtheca.

Genesis 10:29
And Ophir, and Hauilah, and Iobab, all these were the chyldren of Iactan.

Genesis 25:18
And they dwelled from Hauilah vnto Sur, that is by the border of Egypt as thou goest toward Assur, and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

1 Samuel 15:7
And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Heuila, as thou commest to Sur, that lyeth before Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do,.... He had looked at them, and on them, over and over again, and had taken pleasure therein; but now he sits down and enters into a serious consideration of them, what prodigious expenses he had been at; what care and thought, what toil and labour of mind, he had taken in contriving, designing, and bringing these works to perfection; what pleasure and delight he had found in them, and what happiness upon the whole arose from them: he now passes his judgment, and gives his sentiments concerning these things, having had it in his power to make himself master of everything delightful, which he did; was a competent judge, and thoroughly qualified to give a just estimate of matters; and it is as follows;

and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit; nothing solid and substantial in the whole; no true pleasure and real joy, and no satisfaction or happiness in that pleasure; these pleasing things perished with the using, and the pleasure of them faded and died in the enjoyment of them; and instead of yielding solid delight, only proved vexations, because the pleasure was so soon over, and left a thirst for more, and what was not to be had; at most and best, only the outward senses were fed, the mind not at all improved, nor the heart made better, and much less contented; it was only pleasing the fancy and imagination, and feeding on wind;

and [there was] no profit under the sun; by those things; to improve and satisfy the mind of man, to raise him to true happiness, to be of any service to him in the hour of death, or fit him for an eternal world. Alshech interprets the labour mentioned in this text of the labour of the law, which brings no reward to a man in this world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 2:11. And, behold, all was vanity — Emptiness and insufficiency in itself.

And vexation of spirit — Because it promised the good I wished for, but did not, could not, perform the promise; and left my soul discontented and chagrined.