Ec ch 1
V3 What profit has a man of all the labour which he takes under the sun?
V9 The thing that has been, it is that which shall be.
That which is done is that which shall be done.
There is no new thing under the sun.
V11 There is no remembrance of former things.
V14 I have seen all the work that is done under the sun, and behold, it is all vanity and vexation of spirit.
V18 With much wisdom is much grief.
He that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ec ch 2
V1 Go to now, I will prove you with myrrh; therefore enjoy pleasure. This is also vanity.
V10 Whatsoever my eyes desired, I kept not from them.
I withheld not my heart from any joy.
V14 Wisdom excels folly as far as light excels darkness.
V24 There is nothing better for men than that he should eat and drink,
and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
V26 For God gives to a man who is good in His sight wisdom, knowledge, and joy.
But to the sinner He gives travail, to gather and to heap up,
that he may give to him that is good before God.
Ec ch 3
V1 To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
V2 A time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to pluck up.
V10 He has made everything beautiful in His time.
He has set the world in their hearts so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
V12 O, I know that there is no good in them, but that a man should rejoice and do good in his life.
V13 And also that a man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labour; it is the gift of God.
V14 I know that whatsoever God does, it shall be forever.
Nothing can be put to it, or anything taken from it.
V15 God requires that which is past.
V16 I saw the place of judgment, and wickedness is there;
and the place of righteousness, that iniquity is there.
V22 I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works,
for that is his portion.
For who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Ec ch 4
V1 The tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforters.
V2 Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
V3 Yes, better is he than both they,
which has not yet been,
who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
V6 Better is a handful with quietness than both hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
V8 There is one alone, and there is not a second.
For whom do I labour and bereave my soul of good? This also is vanity and sore travail.
V9 Two are better than one, for they have a good reward for their labour.
V10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow.
V11 If two lie together, they have heat.
How can one be warm alone?
V12 If one can prevail against him, two shall withstand him.
A threefold cord is not easily broken.
V13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king.
Ec ch 5
V1 Be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools,
for they consider not that they do evil.
V2 Be not rash with your mouth,
and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God.
Therefore let your words be few.
V2 For a dream comes through the multitude of business,
a fool’s voice is known by the multitude of words.
V8 If you see the oppression of the poor,
and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province,
marvel not at the matter.
V11 When goods are increased, they are increased that eat them.
V12 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.
V18 It is comely for one to eat and drink, and enjoy the good of his labour,
for it is his portion.
V19 Every man to whom God has given riches and wealth,
and has given him power to eat and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour,
this is the gift of God.
V20 He shall not much remember the days of his life,
because God answers him in the joy of his heart.
Ec ch 6
V3 If a man beget a hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many,
and his soul be not filled with good,
I say that an untimely birth is better than he.
V4 For he comes in vanity,
and departs in darkness,
and his name shall be covered in darkness.
V9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire.
V12 For who knows what is good for man in his life,
all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow?
For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Ec ch 7
V1 A good name is better than a precious ointment,
and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
V3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
V4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning.
The heart of the fool is in the house of mirth.
V4 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise
than to hear the song of fools.
V8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning.
V9 Be not hasty to be angry,
for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
V12 For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense.
V13 Consider the work of God;
who can make straight that which He has made crooked?
V14 In the day of prosperity be joyful.
In the day of adversity consider.
God has also set the one over against the other,
to the end that man should find nothing after him.
V16 Be not righteous over much,
neither make yourself overwise.
Why should you destroy yourself?
V17 Be not over much wicked,
neither be you foolish.
Why would you die before your time?
V19 Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
V20 For there is no just man that does good and sins not.
V21 Take no heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you.
V22 For oftentimes you yourself know that you have cursed others.
V24 That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
V26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are bands.
Whoso pleases God shall escape from her.
V27 This I have found, counting one in one.
V28 Which yet my soul seeks but I find not.
One man among a thousand have I found,
but a woman among all those have I not found.
V29 This only have I found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.
Ec ch 8
V6 Because to every purpose there is a time and judgment,
therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
V9 There is a time that one rules over another to his own hurt.
V11 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.
V12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times,
and his days be prolonged,
I know that it shall be well with them that fear God.
V15 Then I commended myrrh, for a man has no better thing under the sun
than to eat, drink, and be merry;
for that shall abide with him of his labour.
V16 For there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes.
Ec ch 9
V1 The righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hands of God.
V4 To him that is joined to the living there is hope,
for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
V11 The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
nor bread to the wise,
nor riches to men of understanding,
nor favour to men of skill;
but time and chance happens to them all.
V12 For man knows not his time,
as the fishes that are taken in an evil net,
and as the birds that are caught in the snare in an evil time,
when it falls suddenly upon them.
V16 Wisdom is better than strength.
V17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet
more than the cry of him that rules among fools.
V16 Wisdom is better than weapons of war,
but one sinner destroys much good.
Ec ch 10
V1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour,
so does little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
V4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, leave not your place;
for yielding pacifies great offenses.
V6 Folly is set in great dignity,
and the rich sit in low place.
V8 He that digs a pit shall fall into it;
whoso breaks an edge, a serpent shall bite him.
V11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment.
V18 By much slothfulness the building decays;
through idleness the house drops through.
V19 A feast is made for laughter,
wine makes merry;
but money answers all things.
Ec ch 11
V1 Cast your bread upon the waters, you shall find it after many days.
V2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight,
for you know not what evil shall be upon the earth.
V3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth.
If a tree falls, where the tree falls, there it shall be.
V4 He that observes the wind shall not sow,
and he that regards the clouds shall not reap.
V5 As you know not what is the way of the spirit,
nor how the bones grow in the womb,
even so you know not the works of God who makes all.
V6 In the morning sow your seed;
in the evening withhold not your hand,
for you know not what shall prosper, this or that,
or whether both shall be alike good.
V9 Rejoice, young men, in your youth,
for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
V10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
and put away evil from your flesh,
for childhood and youth are vanity.
Ec ch 12
V1 Remember the Creator in the days of your youth, while evil days come not,
nor years when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.
V13 Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
V14 For God shall bring every work into judgment,
with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil.