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Ecclesiastes

1. 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
2. 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.
3. 2:19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
4. 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
5. 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
6. 4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
7. 4:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
8. 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.
9. 5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
10. 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
11. 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
12. 6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
13. 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
14. 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.
15. 7:23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
16. 7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
17. 7:28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
18. 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
19. 8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
20. 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
21. 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
22. 9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
23. 10:5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
24. 10:7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
25. 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;