Don't settle for second bestI ask my friend, "Why do you have to work?"
He replied, "To earn money."
"Why do you have to earn money?" I asked him.
"To buy food to eat," He replied.
"Why do you need to eat?" I asked him again.
"So that I have energy," was his reply.
"Why do you need energy?" I wanted to know.
He replied, "I need energy to work."
By Huang Sabin
1在耶路撒冷作王，大卫的儿子，传道者的言语。2传道者说："虚空的虚空，虚空的虚空，凡事都是虚空。"3人一切的劳碌，就是他在日光之下的劳碌，有什么益处呢？4一代过去，一代又来，地却永远长存。5日头出来，日头落下，急归所出之地。6风往南刮，又向北转，不住地旋转，而且返回转行原道。7江河都往海里流，海却不满；江河从何处流，仍归还何处。8万事令人厌烦（注：或作"万物满有困乏"），人不能说尽。眼看，看不饱；耳听，听不足。9已有的事，后必再有；已行的事，后必再行。日光之下，并无新事。10岂有一件事人能指着说："这是新的"？哪知，在我们以前的世代早已有了。11已过的世代，无人记念；将来的世代，后来的人也不记念。传道书1：1-11
1 The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: 2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." 3 What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. 7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. 8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. 9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. 11 There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow. Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Look and ponder no further as someone who is the Life and the provider of Life had an answer for us. Would you believe in him?
6耶稣说："我就是道路、真理、生命；若不借着我，没有人能到父那里去。约翰福音14：6
6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:5
