7:13 你要察看上帝的作為;因上帝使為曲的,誰能變為直呢?
7:14 遇亨通的日子你當喜樂;遭患難的日子你當思想;因為上帝使這兩樣並列,為的是叫人查不出身後有甚麼事。
13 Consider
what God has done:
Who can straighten
what he has made crooked?
14 When times are good, be happy;
but when times are bad, consider this:
God has made the one
as well as the other.
Therefore, no one can discover
anything about their future.
what he has made crooked?
14 When times are good, be happy;
but when times are bad, consider this:
God has made the one
as well as the other.
Therefore, no one can discover
anything about their future.
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傳道者在這裡說到人生像波浪一般,有時順境、有時逆境,上帝為了使人能謙卑倚靠祂,不要讓人去確定未來是好還是不好,如此人就不會驕傲,也不會自以為是!
其實人在順境時,不要高興或喜樂的過頭,要想到人生不是時時刻刻都很順遂,要為將來的逆境做準備,以免逆境來的時候,不知所措!同樣在逆境的時候,也不要失志;因為說不定沒多久就轉為順境,所以要心存盼望!
人生之所以豐富與奇妙,就是順境和逆境的交替,如同波浪一般。但是有一件事,我們不可以忘記,就是我們不管如何,都要順從上帝在聖經的教導,活出上帝兒女的榮美喔!