/lit/ - Literature

>>22995502
>I liked it, I might give Ecclesiastes a try later down the line.
The wisdom literature in the Bible is great more generally too. Lamentations too:
>I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
>He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
>Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
>My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
>He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
>He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
>He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
>Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
You may also like certain psalms. This is Psalm 88:
>O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
>Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
>For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
>I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
>Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
>Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
>Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
>Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
>Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
>Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
>Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
>Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
>But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
>Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
>I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
>Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
>They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
>Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
The breadth of the human condition is covered in the Bible

>>22985292
I find it hard to believe such women exist. What scares me is that if I were to meet her I'd put her on a pedestal and simp for her like some pathetic loser, throwing out all of the things that I know about female nature because my judgement is severely clouded. Many such cases

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