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ECC 01:01 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in

Jerusalem.

ECC 01:02 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of

vanities; all [is] vanity.

ECC 01:03 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he

taketh under the sun?

ECC 01:04 [One] generation passeth away, and [another]

generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

ECC 01:05 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and

hasteth to his place where he arose.

ECC 01:06 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about

unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind

returneth again according to his circuits.

ECC 01:07 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not

full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they

return again.

ECC 01:08 All things [are] full of labour; man cannot utter

[it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled

with hearing.

ECC 01:09 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.

ECC 01:10 Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, See,

this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was

before us.

ECC 01:11 [There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither

shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come

with [those] that shall come after.

ECC 01:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

ECC 01:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom

concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this sore

travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised

therewith.

ECC 01:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun;

and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

ECC 01:15 [That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and

that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

ECC 01:16 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.

ECC 01:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know

madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of

spirit.

ECC 01:18 For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that

increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

ECC 02:01 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee

with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also

[is] vanity.

ECC 02:02 I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What

doeth it?

ECC 02:03 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.

ECC 02:04 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted

me vineyards:

ECC 02:05 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees

in them of all [kind of] fruits:

ECC 02:06 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood

that bringeth forth trees:

ECC 02:07 I got [me] servants and maidens, and had servants

born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and

small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

ECC 02:08 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar

treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and

women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, [as] musical

instruments, and that of all sorts.

ECC 02:09 So I was great, and increased more than all that were

before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

ECC 02:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them,

I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in

all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

ECC 02:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had

wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and,

behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was]

no profit under the sun.

ECC 02:12 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.

ECC 02:13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as

light excelleth darkness.

ECC 02:14 The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool

walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event

happeneth to them all.

ECC 02:15 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.

ECC 02:16 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.

ECC 02:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is

wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity

and vexation of spirit.

ECC 02:18 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.

ECC 02:19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a

fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have

laboured, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun.

This [is] also vanity.

ECC 02:20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair

of all the labour which I took under the sun.

ECC 02:21 For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and

in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured

therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is]

vanity and a great evil.

ECC 02:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the

vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

ECC 02:23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief;

yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also

vanity.

ECC 02:24 [There is] nothing better for a man, [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.

ECC 02:25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto],

more than I?

ECC 02:26 For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight

wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth

travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that

is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of

spirit.

ECC 03:01 To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to

every purpose under the heaven:

ECC 03:02 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant,

and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted;

ECC 03:03 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break

down, and a time to build up;

ECC 03:04 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn,

and a time to dance;

ECC 03:05 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather

stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from

embracing;

ECC 03:06 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep,

and a time to cast away;

ECC 03:07 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep

silence, and a time to speak;

ECC 03:08 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war,

and a time of peace.

ECC 03:09 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he

laboureth?

ECC 03:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the

sons of men to be exercised in it.

ECC 03:11 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.

ECC 03:12 I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a

man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

ECC 03:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and

enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.

ECC 03:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for

ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and

God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.

ECC 03:15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be

hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

ECC 03:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of

judgment, [that] wickedness [was] there; and the place of

righteousness, [that] iniquity [was] there.

ECC 03:17 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.

ECC 03:18 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.

ECC 03:19 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.

ECC 03:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all

turn to dust again.

ECC 03:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and

the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

ECC 03:22 Wherefore 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?

ECC 04:01 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.

ECC 04:02 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead

more than the living which are yet alive.

ECC 04:03 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.

ECC 04:04 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work,

that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also

vanity and vexation of spirit.

ECC 04:05 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his

own flesh.

ECC 04:06 Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both

the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.

ECC 04:07 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

ECC 04:08 There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second;

yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of

all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches;

neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of

good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail.

ECC 04:09 Two [are] better than one; because they have a good

reward for their labour.

ECC 04:10 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.

ECC 04:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but

how can one be warm [alone]?

ECC 04:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand

him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

ECC 04:13 Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and

foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

ECC 04:14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also

[he that is] born in his kingdom becometh poor.

ECC 04:15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun,

with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

ECC 04:16 [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.

ECC 05:01 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.

ECC 05:02 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart

be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven,

and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

ECC 05:03 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business;

and a fool's voice [is known] by multitude of words.

ECC 05:04 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.

ECC 05:05 Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that

thou shouldest vow and not pay.

ECC 05:06 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?

ECC 05:07 For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there

are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.

ECC 05:08 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.

ECC 05:09 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king

[himself] is served by the field.

ECC 05:10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with

silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is]

also vanity.

ECC 05:11 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?

ECC 05:12 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.

ECC 05:13 There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the

sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

ECC 05:14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he

begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.

ECC 05:15 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.

ECC 05:16 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?

ECC 05:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he

hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

ECC 05:18 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.

ECC 05:19 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.

ECC 05:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life;

because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.

ECC 06:01 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and

it [is] common among men:

ECC 06:02 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.

ECC 06:03 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.

ECC 06:04 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in

darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

ECC 06:05 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any

thing]: this hath more rest than the other.

ECC 06:06 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told],

yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

ECC 06:07 All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the

appetite is not filled.

ECC 06:08 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath

the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

ECC 06:09 Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering

of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

ECC 06:10 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.

ECC 06:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity,

what [is] man the better?

ECC 06:12 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?

ECC 07:01 A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and

the day of death than the day of one's birth.

ECC 07:02 [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.

ECC 07:03 Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness

of the countenance the heart is made better.

ECC 07:04 The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning;

but the heart of fools [is] in the house of mirth.

ECC 07:05 [It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than

for a man to hear the song of fools.

ECC 07:06 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is]

the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.

ECC 07:07 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift

destroyeth the heart.

ECC 07:08 Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning

thereof: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud

in spirit.

ECC 07:09 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger

resteth in the bosom of fools.

ECC 07:10 Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former

days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely

concerning this.

ECC 07:11 Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it

there is] profit to them that see the sun.

ECC 07:12 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.

ECC 07:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make [that]

straight, which he hath made crooked?

ECC 07:14 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.

ECC 07:15 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.

ECC 07:16 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over

wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

ECC 07:17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why

shouldest thou die before thy time?

ECC 07:18 [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.

ECC 07:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty

[men] which are in the city.

ECC 07:20 For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth

good, and sinneth not.

ECC 07:21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken;

lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

ECC 07:22 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou

thyself likewise hast cursed others.

ECC 07:23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be

wise; but it [was] far from me.

ECC 07:24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can

find it out?

ECC 07:25 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:

ECC 07:26 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.

ECC 07:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher,

[counting] one by one, to find out the account:

ECC 07:28 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.

ECC 07:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man

upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

ECC 08:01 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.

ECC 08:02 I [counsel thee] to keep the king's commandment, and

[that] in regard of the oath of God.

ECC 08:03 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an

evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

ECC 08:04 Where the word of a king [is, there is] power: and

who may say unto him, What doest thou?

ECC 08:05 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil

thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

ECC 08:06 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment,

therefore the misery of man [is] great upon him.

ECC 08:07 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can

tell him when it shall be?

ECC 08:08 [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.

ECC 08:09 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every

work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one

man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

ECC 08:10 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.

ECC 08:11 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.

ECC 08:12 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:

ECC 08:13 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.

ECC 08:14 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.

ECC 08:15 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.

ECC 08:16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see

the business that is done upon the earth: (for also [there is

that] neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

ECC 08:17 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

farther; though a wise [man] think to know [it], yet shall he

not be able to find [it].

ECC 09:01 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.

ECC 09:02 All [things come] alike to all: [there is] one event

to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the

clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him

that sacrificeth not: as [is] the good, so [is] the sinner;

[and] he that sweareth, as [he] that feareth an oath.

ECC 09:03 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.

ECC 09:04 For to him that is joined to all the living there is

hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

ECC 09:05 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.

ECC 09:06 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.

ECC 09:07 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy

wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

ECC 09:08 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head

lack no ointment.

ECC 09:09 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.

ECC 09:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy

might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor

wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

ECC 09:11 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.

ECC 09:12 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.

ECC 09:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it

[seemed] great unto me:

ECC 09:14 [There was] a little city, and few men within it; and

there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built

great bulwarks against it:

ECC 09:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by

his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same

poor man.

ECC 09:16 Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength:

nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words

are not heard.

ECC 09:17 The words of wise [men are] heard in quiet more than

the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

ECC 09:18 Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one

sinner destroyeth much good.

ECC 10:01 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.

ECC 10:02 A wise man's heart [is] at his right hand; but a

fool's heart at his left.

ECC 10:03 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way,

his wisdom faileth [him], and he saith to every one [that] he

[is] a fool.

ECC 10:04 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee,

leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

ECC 10:05 There is an evil [which] I have seen under the sun,

as an error [which] proceedeth from the ruler:

ECC 10:06 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in

low place.

ECC 10:07 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking

as servants upon the earth.

ECC 10:08 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso

breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

ECC 10:09 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; [and]

he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

ECC 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.

ECC 10:11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and

a babbler is no better.

ECC 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but

the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

ECC 10:13 The beginning of the words of his mouth [is]

foolishness: and the end of his talk [is] mischievous madness.

ECC 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?

ECC 10:15 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them,

because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

ECC 10:16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a child, and

thy princes eat in the morning!

ECC 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!

ECC 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and

through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

ECC 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry:

but money answereth all [things].

ECC 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.

ECC 11:01 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find

it after many days.

ECC 11:02 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou

knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

ECC 11:03 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.

ECC 11:04 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that

regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

ECC 11:05 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.

ECC 11:06 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening

withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall

prosper, either this or that, or whether they both [shall be]

alike good.

ECC 11:07 Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it

is] for the eyes to behold the sun:

ECC 11:08 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.

ECC 11:09 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart

cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of

thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that

for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.

ECC 11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away

evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.

ECC 12:01 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth,

while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou

shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

ECC 12:02 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the

stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

ECC 12:03 In the day when the keepers of the house shall

tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the

grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of

the windows be darkened,

ECC 12:04 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the

sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice

of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

ECC 12:05 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:

ECC 12:06 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl

be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the

wheel broken at the cistern.

ECC 12:07 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was:

and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

ECC 12:08 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is]

vanity.

ECC 12:09 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still

taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought

out, [and] set in order many proverbs.

ECC 12:10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and

[that which was] written [was] upright, [even] words of truth.

ECC 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.

ECC 12:12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of

making many books [there is] no end; and much study [is] a

weariness of the flesh.

ECC 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear

God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty]

of man.

ECC 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with

every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be]

evil.

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