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Ecclesiastes

1. 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
2. 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
3. 1:10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
4. 1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
5. 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.
6. 2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
7. 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.
8. 2:18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
9. 2:20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
10. 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
11. 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
12. 3:15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
13. 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.
14. 4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
15. 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.
16. 4:15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
17. 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.
18. 5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
22. 6:10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
23. 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?
24. 7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
25. 7:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
26. 7:24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
27. 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.
28. 8:7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
29. 8:12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
30. 8:13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. 10:5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
35. 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.
36. 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
37. 12:10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
38. 12:11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.