“In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.”
The advice to enjoy good days and to consider that God has made both good days and bad days, so that humanity cannot discover what comes after, recommends accepting both prosperity and adversity as divinely sent. The inability to predict the future should counsel contentment with the present good, whatever it is. This verse suggests that wisdom involves neither optimism nor pessimism but equanimity before life's oscillations.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!