7a54eab291
**NLT Integration:** - Added NLT directory structure matching ESV/NKJV pattern - Updated Dockerfile to COPY NLT /app/NLT - Added NLT_DATA_DIR path and search engine initialization - Updated getDataDir and /versions endpoints to support NLT - Frontend will automatically include NLT in version dropdown **NKJV Fixes:** - Fixed thousands of NKJV chapter files (encoding, formatting issues) - All NKJV content now serves correctly - Preserves existing favorites and search functionality **Complete 3-Version Bible Library:** - ESV (English Standard Version) ✓ - NKJV (New King James Version) ✓ - NLT (New Living Translation) ✓ All versions now follow consistent directory structure and Docker integration!
2.0 KiB
Chapter 4
-
Again, I observed all the oppression that takes place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and their victims are helpless.
-
So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living.
-
But most fortunate of all are those who are not yet born. For they have not seen all the evil that is done under the sun.
-
Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless--like chasing the wind.
-
"Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin."
-
And yet, "Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind."The Advantages of Companionship
-
I observed yet another example of something meaningless under the sun.
-
This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and depressing.
-
Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.
-
If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.
-
Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone?
-
A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.The Futility of Political Power
-
It is better to be a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king who refuses all advice.
-
Such a youth could rise from poverty and succeed. He might even become king, though he has been in prison.
-
But then everyone rushes to the side of yet another youth who replaces him.
-
Endless crowds stand around him, but then another generation grows up and rejects him, too. So it is all meaningless--like chasing the wind.