Ecclesiastes

1:17
K -- vexation of spirit
N -- chasing after wind

2:25
K -- For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto,more than I?
N -- for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?

3:11
K -- he hath set the world in their heart
N -- He has also set eternity in the human heart

3:12
K -- I know that there is no good in them
N -- I know that there is nothing better for people

3:18
K -- concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them
N -- As for humans, God tests them

4:5
K -- The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
N -- Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.

5:3
K -- through the multitudes of business
N -- when there are many cares

5:6
K -- Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel
N -- Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger

5:14
K -- there is nothing in his hand
N -- there is nothing left for them to inherit

5:20
K -- For he shall not much remember the days of his life
N -- They seldom reflect o the days of their life

 

Yeah,I just don't get that grammar of the KJV when the Geneva Bible reds so much better.

In verses 4,5 and 6 they all start with "I made me..." In verse 7 "I got me."

The word "gat" was probaly going out of fashion in 1611. "Have provided" is so much better.

 

6:2
K -- God giveth him not power to eat thereof
N -- God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them

6:8
K -- that knoweth to walk before the living
N -- by knowing how to conduct themselves before others

6:10
K -- and it is known that it is man
N -- and what humanity is has been known

6:11
K -- Seeing there be many things that increase vanity,what is man the better?
N -- The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?

7:11
K -- Wisdom is good with an inheritance
N -- Wisdom,like an inheritance, is a good thing

7:14
K -- God has set the one over against the other
N -- God has made the one as well as the other

7:18
K -- shall come forth of them all
N -- will avoid all extremes

8:1
K -- who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?
N -- Who knows the explanation of things?

8:3
K -- stand not in an evil thing
N -- Do not stand up for a bad cause

8:5
K -- discerneth both time and judgment
N -- will know the proper time and procedure

8:8
K -- There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit
N -- no one has power over the wind to contain it

 

9:13
K -- it seemed great unto me
N -- greatly impressed me

9:17
K -- The words of wise men are heard in quiet
N -- The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded

10:1
K -- Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour
N -- dead flies give perfume a bad smell

10:8
K -- whoso breaketh an hedge
N -- Whoever breaks through a wall

10:11
K -- a babbler is no better
N -- the charmer receives no fee

10:18
K -- the house droppeth through
N -- the huse leaks

11:1
K -- Cast thy bread upon the waters
N -- Ship your grain across the sea

11:5
K -- thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit,nor how the bones do grow
N -- you do not know the path of the wind,or how the body is formed

12:5
K -- fears shall be in the way
N -- dangers in the streets

K -- the grasshopper shall be a burden
N -- the grasshopper drags itself along

K -- man goeth to his long home
N -- people go to their eternal home

12:11
K -- as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies
N -- their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails

 

Have you done a comparision of the KJV and Geneva Bibles? A good deal of the time they read the same --but on a lot of occasions the latter reads so much better than the KJV.

 

You're welcome.

So how did he grasp the concept of eternity,since it's not in the text of the KJV?
Perhaps reviewing the whole verse in the NIV is needed.

"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart;yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end."

 

ESV : Also,he put eternity into man's heart
NASBU : He has set eternity in their heart
HCSB : He put eternity in their heart
NLTSE : He has planted eternity in the human heart

Rather clear.

 

I don't think there is any cause and effect going on in Ecc. 3:11.

Only in your imagination.

Out of bounds there Bud. There is one God. Don't dare suggest otherwise.

So let's get some thing settled. Every person is a creature of eternity. Everyone,whether saved or unregenerate, has a soul that will exist for eternity. God has set that in the human heart. But on the other hand no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.