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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

Copyright (c) 1985-2007

*EC-1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in

Jerusalem.

EC-1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of

vanities; all [is] vanity.

EC-1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh

under the sun?

EC-1:4 [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation

cometh:but the earth abideth for ever.

EC-1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and

hasteth to his place where he arose.

EC-1:6 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.

EC-1:7 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.

EC-1:8 All things [are] full of labour; man cannot utter [it]:

the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with

hearing.

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-1:11 [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.

EC-1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

EC-1:13 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.

EC-1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun;

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

EC-1:15 [That which is] crooked cannot be made straight:and

that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

EC-1:16 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.

EC-1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness

and folly:I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

EC-1:18 For in much wisdom [is] much grief:and he that

increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

*EC-2:1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with

mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure:and, behold, this also [is]

vanity.

EC-2:2 I said of laughter, [It is] mad:and of mirth, What doeth

it?

EC-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.

EC-2:4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me

vineyards:

EC-2:5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in

them of all [kind of] fruits:

EC-2:6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood

that bringeth forth trees:

EC-2:7 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:

EC-2:8 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.

EC-2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were

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

EC-2:10 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.

EC-2:11 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.

EC-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.

EC-2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light

excelleth darkness.

EC-2:14 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.

EC-2:15 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.

EC-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.

EC-2:17 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.

EC-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.

EC-2:19 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.

EC-2:20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of

all the labour which I took under the sun.

EC-2:21 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.

EC-2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the

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

EC-2:23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief;

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

EC-2:24 [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.

EC-2:25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto],

more than I?

EC-2:26 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.

*EC-3:1 To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every

purpose under the heaven:

EC-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;

EC-3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down,

and a time to build up;

EC-3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn,

and a time to dance;

EC-3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones

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

embracing;

EC-3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a

time to cast away;

EC-3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep

silence, and a time to speak;

EC-3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a

time of peace.

EC-3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he

laboureth?

EC-3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the

sons of men to be exercised in it.

EC-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.

EC-3:12 I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man]

to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

EC-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.

EC-3:14 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.

EC-3:15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be

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

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all

turn to dust again.

EC-3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and

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

EC-3:22 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?

*EC-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.

EC-4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more

than the living which are yet alive.

EC-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.

EC-4:4 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.

EC-4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own

flesh.

EC-4:6 Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the

hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.

EC-4:7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

EC-4:8 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.

EC-4:9 Two [are] better than one; because they have a good

reward for their labour.

EC-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.

EC-4:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat:but how

can one be warm [alone]?

EC-4:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him;

and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

EC-4:13 Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and

foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

EC-4:14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also [he

that is] born in his kingdom becometh poor.

EC-4:15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun,

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

EC-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.

*EC-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.

EC-5:2 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.

EC-5:3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business;

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

EC-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.

EC-5:5 Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that

thou shouldest vow and not pay.

EC-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?

EC-5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there

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

EC-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.

EC-5:9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all:the king

[himself] is served by the field.

EC-5:10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with

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

also vanity.

EC-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?

EC-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.

EC-5:13 There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun,

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

EC-5:14 But those riches perish by evil travail:and he

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

EC-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.

EC-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?

EC-5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath]

much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life;

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

*EC-6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and

it [is] common among men:

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-6:4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness,

and his name shall be covered with darkness.

EC-6:5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]:

this hath more rest than the other.

EC-6:6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet

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

EC-6:7 All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the

appetite is not filled.

EC-6:8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the

poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

EC-6:9 Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of

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

EC-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.

EC-6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what

[is] man the better?

EC-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?

*EC-7:1 A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the

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

EC-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.

EC-7:3 Sorrow [is] better than laughter:for by the sadness of

the countenance the heart is made better.

EC-7:4 The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning; but

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

EC-7:5 [It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for

a man to hear the song of fools.

EC-7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the

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

EC-7:7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift

destroyeth the heart.

EC-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.

EC-7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry:for anger resteth

in the bosom of fools.

EC-7:10 Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days

were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely

concerning this.

EC-7:11 Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance:and [by it there

is] profit to them that see the sun.

EC-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.

EC-7:13 Consider the work of God:for who can make [that]

straight, which he hath made crooked?

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-7:16 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over

wise:why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

EC-7:17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish:why

shouldest thou die before thy time?

EC-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.

EC-7:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty

[men] which are in the city.

EC-7:20 For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth

good, and sinneth not.

EC-7:21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest

thou hear thy servant curse thee:

EC-7:22 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou

thyself likewise hast cursed others.

EC-7:23 All this have I proved by wisdom:I said, I will be wise;

but it [was] far from me.

EC-7:24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find

it out?

EC-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:

EC-7:26 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.

EC-7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher,

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

EC-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.

EC-7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man

upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

*EC-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.

EC-8:2 I [counsel thee] to keep the king's commandment, and

[that] in regard of the oath of God.

EC-8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight:stand not in an evil

thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

EC-8:4 Where the word of a king [is, there is] power:and who

may say unto him, What doest thou?

EC-8:5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing:

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

EC-8:6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment,

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

EC-8:7 For he knoweth not that which shall be:for who can tell

him when it shall be?

EC-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.

EC-8:9 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.

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-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:

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-8:16 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:)

EC-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

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

not be able to find [it].

*EC-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.

EC-9:2 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.

EC-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.

EC-9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is

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

EC-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.

EC-9:6 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.

EC-9:7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine

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

EC-9:8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack

no ointment.

EC-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.

EC-9:10 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.

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it

[seemed] great unto me:

EC-9:14 [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:

EC-9:15 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.

EC-9:16 Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength:

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

are not heard.

EC-9:17 The words of wise [men are] heard in quiet more than

the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

EC-9:18 Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war:but one sinner

destroyeth much good.

*EC-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.

EC-10:2 A wise man's heart [is] at his right hand; but a fool's

heart at his left.

EC-10:3 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.

EC-10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave

not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

EC-10:5 There is an evil [which] I have seen under the sun, as

an error [which] proceedeth from the ruler:

EC-10:6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low

place.

EC-10:7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking

as servants upon the earth.

EC-10:8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso

breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

EC-10:9 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; [and] he

that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

EC-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.

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

a babbler is no better.

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

the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

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

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

EC-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?

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

because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

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

thy princes eat in the morning!

EC-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!

EC-10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and

through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

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

but money answereth all [things].

EC-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.

*EC-11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters:for thou shalt find it

after many days.

EC-11:2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou

knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

EC-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.

EC-11:4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that

regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

EC-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.

EC-11:6 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.

EC-11:7 Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it

is] for the eyes to behold the sun:

EC-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.

EC-11:9 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.

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

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

*EC-12:1 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;

EC-12:2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars,

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

EC-12:3 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,

EC-12:4 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;

EC-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:

EC-12:6 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.

EC-12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was:and

the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

EC-12:8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.

EC-12:9 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.

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

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

EC-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.

EC-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.

EC-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.

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

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

evil.