Sentences with phrase «chasing after the wind»
The Hebrew word, hebel («vanity»), has the sense of «emptiness, futility, absurdity»: «I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a chase after wind» (1:14; 2:11, 17, 26; etc.).
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«I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind... I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.»
As the great teacher Solomon writes in the book of Ecclesiastes, those material successes of wealth and pleasure are meaningless, and pursuing such things is merely chasing after the wind.
Nor do I want to jump at any and every option, «chasing after the wind» as the writer of Ecclesiastes says.
Anything less than 10 years is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Not exact matches
Kelley died of a self - inflicted gunshot wound after he was chased by bystanders and crashed his car.
Evidence suggests Mr Kelley died of a self - inflicted gunshot wound after he was chased from the church by armed bystanders and later crashed her car.
Jesus remained as elusive as ever, leaving me chasing after him like a child chasing a ballon in the wind.
Running after bubbles On a wind free day select a large grassy area and blow bubbles for your toddler to chase and pop.
Without disclosing his Armenian identity, he winds up working for a soap manufacturer (Makram J. Khoury) and notes with joy that the Ottomans, after losing World War I, are chased out of their villages.
After all, the simple pleasure of watching a dog romp in the snow or a cat chase a laser pointer makes everyone — weary parents, wound - up kids, a room full of party guests, and people on their own for the holidays included — all smile!
After an hour of chasing around the other 7 cats, it appeared that no one had any wounds.
It was an elegant brownstone townhouse on Beacon St., in Boston, and it was mortgaged to the hilt so that the beautiful but willful Derinda James could start a new life out West, where she outmaneuvered gunslingers, rode spirited horses, and dressed the bear - claw wounds of the unnervingly handsome Clinton Gage, whom she later married after a chase across the country.