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Ecclesiastes

1. 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2. 1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
3. 1:16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
4. 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
5. 2:1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
6. 2:3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
7. 2:5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
8. 2:7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
9. 2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
10. 2:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
11. 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
12. 2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
13. 2:16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
14. 2:21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
15. 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
16. 2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
17. 2:26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
18. 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
19. 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
20. 3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
21. 3:12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
22. 3:17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
23. 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
24. 3:22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
25. 4:14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
26. 4:15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
27. 4:16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
28. 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
29. 5:4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
30. 5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
31. 5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
32. 5:14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
33. 5:15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
34. 5:16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
35. 5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
36. 5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
37. 5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
38. 6:4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
39. 6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
40. 7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
41. 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
42. 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
43. 7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
44. 7:15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
45. 7:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
46. 8:2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
47. 8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
48. 8:8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
49. 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
50. 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.