Ecclesiastes 3:17 New English Translation (NET Bible)

17 I thought to myself, “God will judge both the righteous and the wicked;
for there is an appropriate time for every activity,
and there is a time of judgment for every deed.

 

Empty handed I stand before You … my mouth full of gravel

Unexpected at the time … when You called my number

Helpless I’m here now … waiting for the gavel

As my destiny will be called … Woe! To all my slumber

 

My bag of excuses now … appearing kind of formal

My mouth completely dry … nothing can be said

All of the abuses … my decay seems truly normal

Sound of distant cries from … afar a glow of red

 

It had to come to this … is ignorance really bliss?

Fooled myself for years … no one now to blame

I made my own bed … now who will pay for this?

Surrounded by my peers … all to my own shame

 

If I had known the future … wouldn’t I have done the same?

Nothing changes much … for them that love blindness

It’s all about the selfish … like life is just a game

That without interruption … removes most types of kindness

 

Is all then what's preplanned … maybe for self-expansion?

All what's done somehow… a need to fulfill one’s greed

As then the world turns only … into one’s comprehension

To enlarge selfish desires … becoming one’s greater need

 

The more we think we know … the easier to spell ignorance

The more we comprehend … the emptier what’s understood

Always on the go … trying to escape all self-made hindrance

Made to teach us the lessons … so in Life to grow for good

 

Jan Wienen

1 John 2:1 New English Translation (NET Bible)

2 1 (My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.)

But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One …