Ecclesiastes 1:2

² Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

³ What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:4

⁴ One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 1:5

⁵ The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

Ecclesiastes 1:6

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

⁸ All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

¹ I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

² I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

Ecclesiastes 2:3

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:4

⁴ I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

Ecclesiastes 2:5

⁵ I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

Ecclesiastes 2:6

⁶ I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

Ecclesiastes 2:7

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:

Ecclesiastes 2:8

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

⁹ So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

⁶ Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

⁷ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

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.

Ecclesiastes 4:9

⁹ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

⁹ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

Ecclesiastes 6:1

¹ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

Ecclesiastes 6:2

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 stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

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.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

⁶ Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 6:7

⁷ All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

⁸ For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 6:9

⁹ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

⁵ It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

⁸ Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Ecclesiastes 8:2

² I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

Ecclesiastes 8:3

³ Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

Ecclesiastes 8:6

⁶ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

⁷ For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 9:7

⁷ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

Ecclesiastes 9:8

⁸ Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

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.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

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.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

⁴ If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

Ecclesiastes 11:1

¹ Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

² Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

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.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

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.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

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;

Ecclesiastes 12:2

² While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

Ecclesiastes 12:3

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,

Ecclesiastes 12:4

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 musick shall be brought low;

Ecclesiastes 12:5

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:

Ecclesiastes 12:6

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.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

⁷ Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:12

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:18

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

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 shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

²⁰ Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

²² For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:24

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

¹² I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

Ecclesiastes 3:13

¹³ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:17

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.

Ecclesiastes 4:10

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.

Ecclesiastes 4:11

¹¹ Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

Ecclesiastes 4:12

¹² And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

¹⁰ He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:11

¹¹ When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding beholding of them with their eyes?

Ecclesiastes 5:12

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

¹³ There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

¹⁴ But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

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?

Ecclesiastes 5:17

¹⁷ All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:19

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:20

²⁰ For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

¹¹ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Ecclesiastes 6:12

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?

Ecclesiastes 7:11

¹¹ Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:16

¹⁶ Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

Ecclesiastes 7:17

¹⁷ Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

Ecclesiastes 7:23

²³ All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Ecclesiastes 7:24

²⁴ That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

Ecclesiastes 7:26

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

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.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

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:

Ecclesiastes 8:17

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 further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

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.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

¹¹ Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

¹² The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

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?

Ecclesiastes 10:15

¹⁵ The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

Ecclesiastes 10:18

¹⁸ By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

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