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Ecclesiastes

1. 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
2. 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.
3. 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
4. 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
9. 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
10. 4:1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
11. 4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
12. 4:3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
13. 4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
14. 4:6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
15. 4:7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
16. 4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
17. 4:15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 5:3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
21. 5:6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
22. 5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
23. 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.
24. 5:9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
25. 5:11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
26. 5:12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
27. 5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
28. 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?
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. 5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
32. 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
33. 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.
34. 6:5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
35. 6:7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
36. 6:8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
37. 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
38. 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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. 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
41. 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.
42. 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
43. 7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
44. 7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
45. 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
46. 7:7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
47. 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.
48. 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
49. 7:10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
50. 7:11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.