Ecclesiastes 7 emphasizes the value of wisdom and the practice of common sense in human thought process. Wisdom before wealth is better!

Please read, review and respond to the following:

v.  3
Why is mourning better for the heart?

v.  5 
How should one feel about the correction of the wise?

v.  7
Vanity = emp _________________________ ness (pointless, meaningless, senseless).

v.  8
Why is it better to be patient better than to be proud?

v.  10
What is unwise, and why?

v.  12
What good is wisdom and wealth?

v.  14
Compare prosperity and adversity regarding our relationship to God.

v.  15
Whose life may perish and whose life may be prolonged, and why?

v.  18
What does one who fears (respects) God attempt?

v.  19 
How is practicing wisdom (discernment, discretion, discussion, discourse, discovery) beneficial?

v.  21
The conversation of others might just be about whom?

v.  25
Why search for wisdom?

v.  29 
What happened to God's original creation?

Ecclesiastes 6 continues to address human goals in life.

Read, review and respond to the following:

1)   Who is speaking in chapter 6?


2)   What is his mood?


3)   Why is he feeling this way?


4)   Where is his mindset?


​5)   When is his mood and mindset likely to change?

Ecclesiastes 5 instructs us to listen more, talk less; pay what you pledge respecting God. And also identifies two (2) elements of evil tragedy.

(NKJV)

Read, review and respond to the following:

v.  1
Why "draw near to hear...."?


v.  2
Why "let your words be few"?


v.  4
Why "pay what you vowed"?


v.  9
Why is "the profit of the land...for all..."?


v.  13, 16
Describe two (2) elements of "severe evil".


v.  18, 19
What is "good and fitting"? (Two (2) responses) ​


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