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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

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.