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Ecclesiastes
| "Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him."
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| [[Ecclesiastes 2:4]] - [[Ecclesiastes 2:6]]| The Teacher built houses and made reservoirs to water his gardens, but it was meaningless (v11).
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| [[Ecclesiastes 2:17]] - [[Ecclesiastes 2:23]]
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| |It can seem as though the whole of our life's work is just meaningless toil.
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| [[Ecclesiastes 10:9]]| "Whoever quarries stones may be injured by them; whoever splits logs may be endangered by them."|Working with technology can be dangerous.
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| [[Ecclesiastes 10:10]]| "If the axe is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed but skill will bring success."|This probably generalises to most tools. If your equipment is sub-standard then it takes a lot more effort to get results. Nevertheless, a good tradesman never blames his tools. If you have the skill, you can still succeed -- maybe by sharpening the axe!
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