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Ecclesiastes

1. 6:2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
2. 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.
3. 6:7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
4. 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
5. 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?
6. 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
7. 7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
8. 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
9. 7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
10. 7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
11. 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
12. 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.
13. 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
14. 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.
15. 7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 7:18 It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
19. 7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
20. 8:1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
21. 8:2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
22. 8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
23. 8:4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
24. 8:6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
29. 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
30. 8:17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
31. 9:1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
32. 9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
33. 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.
34. 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
35. 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
36. 9:12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
37. 9:17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
38. 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
39. 10:1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
40. 10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
41. 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
42. 10:13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
43. 10:14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
44. 10:15 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
45. 10:17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
46. 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
47. 10:20 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
48. 11:3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
49. 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
50. 11:8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.