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16 verses in Ecclesiastes Show all

Ecclesiastes

1. 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.
2. 2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 2:25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
6. 4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
7. 4:13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
8. 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
9. 6:5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
10. 6:8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
11. 7:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
12. 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 9:17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
16. 10:10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.