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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.
king james study
==== <EC1>
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.
==== <EC2>
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.
==== <EC3>
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?
==== <EC4>
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.
==== <EC5>
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.
==== <EC6>
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?
==== <EC7>
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.
==== <EC8>
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].
==== <EC9>
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.
==== <EC10>
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.
==== <EC11>
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.
==== <EC12>
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.
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