Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Funny story, I didn’t realize this verse said what this verse said and now I am not sure where to go with it. I thought for some reason this verse said power is an oppressor versus the oppressors having power and I was going to make a joke about how with great power comes great responsibility… and now it is all ruined because I actually am reading the verse and it isn’t saying what I thought it was saying.
In my defense it is Daylight Savings Time spring forward when I am writing this and it is 10:55 when my bedtime is usually 9:30 so I am already feeling a little tired. Also it’s a Sunday… and normally Sunday is supposed to be my day of rest but I procrastinated doing a lot of things on Saturday because I worked and had a business meeting… and this is all just me writing in an attempt to understand what I should write about lol.
I feel like Ecclesiastes gets a bad name because it’s all doom and gloom when realistically, it’s someone writing about what is going on in their world. Sometimes the world isn’t all sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows. Especially when you are looking from an outsider’s perspective and you see what caused all the suffering and how it could have been avoided.
I could write about how in the end God will have all the power and the oppressors none – but that would be a very short thing.
You could argue though that the oppressors have no power for what is power? If only God gives power and yet He is All-Powerful and thus has all the power, does anyone really have power? Is power just what we conceive it to be and we somehow surrender it to others unknowingly? What even is the definition of power? Is it might or control over someone? That is what I often think.
I would like to point out in Ecclesiastes it says no one was there to comfort them but God was. Also Ecclesiastes was written by the wisest man on Earth (other than Jesus?) and so we really should pay more attention to it. He is reflecting on the folly of man.
This blog post obviously has no purpose as the intended use is not the true meaning but I am still going to post it because it is now 11 o’clock, I have two other blog posts to write, and I do not have the time to come up with a different idea for a blog post.
God bless!
~ Ashley
P.S. This is hot garbage. Maybe I will try again tomorrow and rewrite it… or more likely fall asleep, forget it happened, and just laugh.
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