Outline for Ecclesiastes Study

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 Overview – Uselessness, Authority, Fleeting Life, and Cycles of Life
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:12-13 – The Experiment – Exploring Value in What Can Be Done
    1. Ecclesiastes 1:13b – 15 Experiment Result Abstract – All Is Vanity
      1. Ecclesiastes 1:16-18 Experiment Part 1 Vanity of Wisdom, Knowledge, Madness, and Folly
      2. Ecclesiastes 2 1-3 Experiment Part 2 – Vanity of Physical Stimulation
      3. Ecclesiastes 2 4-8 Experiment Part 3 Vanity of Increasing Wealth
    2. Ecclesiastes 2:9-11 Experiment Complete and All was Vanity
  3. Ecclesiastes 2 12-17 – Despair and Hatred of Vanity and Futility
  4. Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 All is Vanity, Painful, and Grievous
  5. Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 Enjoy Good Labor and God Adds Joy to Wisdom and Knowledge
    1. Ecclesiastes 3:1-10 God Has Provided Cycles in Which We Can Be Occupied
    2. Ecclesiastes 3:11-15 Enjoy the Good Life – Only God can Do More
  6. Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 Turning to Dust, Both Man and Beast Die in the End
  7. Ecclesiastes 4:1-8 Oppression and Competition Are Striving After the Wind
  8. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 There is Strength in Community and Insufficiency in Isolation
  9. Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 Everyone is Replaced in Time – Vanity
  10. Ecclesiastes 5:1-13 Action in Agreement and Those in Disagreement with God – Attitude
    1. Ecclesiastes 5:1-9 – A Way to Live
      1. Ecclesiastes 5:1-13 Action in Agreement and Those in Disagreement with God – Attitude
      2. Ecclesiastes 5:4-7 Consider God with Awe, Keep Your Oaths
      3. Ecclesiastes 5:8-9  Governing Should Include Justice, Righteousness, and Structure
    2. Ecclesiastes 5:10-  How Not to Live
      1. Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 Don’t Rest on Money for Satisfaction
      2. Ecclesiastes 5:13-17 Do Not Horde Riches to Your Own Harm
  11. The following is in draft, change is expected
  12. 5:18-20 Enjoy the Life God has Given
  13. 6:1 Prevalent Evil Ways of Life
    1. 6:2 Loss of Ones Labor to War
    2. 6:3-6 One with a Full Family Who does not See Satisfaction
    3. 6:7-9 Having an Appetite Unsatisfied
    4. 6:10-12 Do Not Increase Words – Guard Yourself from 5:1
  14. 7:1-14 Action – Positive Encouraged by Wisdom and Negative Rebuked(?)
  15. 7:15-23 More Understanding from the Experiment
  16. 7:15-17 Moderation – Morality and Wisdom
  17. 7:19-22 All, Even the Righteous Sin
  18. 7:23-8:1  God Made Men Upright, but They Have Sought Out Many Devices
  19. 8:2-6 Keep the Command of the King
  20. 8:7-9 People Have Limited Knowledge
  21. 8:10 We Die and Are Forgotten
  22. 8:11-13 Evil Increases with Delayed Justice
  23. 8:14 It is Empty that Righteousness and Wickedness Do not Meet Swift Judgment
  24. 8:15 Pleasure Stands by the Worker in the Toils of Life – (anticipation of re-experiencing pleasure)
  25. 8:15 Pleasure Stands by the Worker in the Toils of Life – (anticipation of re-experiencing pleasure)
  26. 8:16-17 People Can Not Know the Workings of God
  27. * 9:1-9
  28. 9:1 We Do Not Know what Life Will Bring, but we are in God’s Hands
  29. 9:2-6 Repeat of the Theme – Single Fate of All
  30. 9:10-12 Carpe Diem, Quam Minimum Credula Postero: Seize the day, place as little trust in the following as possible
  31. 9:13-10:1 Wisdom Has Value Before the Forgetfulness of Death
  32. 10:2 -3 A Fool is Known by Their Actions
  33. 10:4 Hold to Your Position with Composure
  34. 10:5-11 Wisdom Can Give Success When Evil Tries to Tip the Scale
  35. 10:12-15 Foolishness Is Never ending and Does not Lead to a Goal
  36. 10:16-17 Value of a Noble Ruler
  37. 10:18-19 Money and Toil can Overcome Where Slackness Weakens
  38. 10:20 When You Talk About Another It Can Get to the Person
  39. 11:1 – 10
  40. 12:1 – 8
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