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  Ecclesiastes

  1:1 The he son of David, king in Jerusalem.

  1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

  1:3 rofit hath a man of all his labour he sun?

  1:4 One geion passeth ah for ever.

  1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the suh doo his place where he arose.

  1:6 The s.

  1:7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place frain.

  1:8 All things are full of labour; man ot utter it: the eye is not satisfied h hearing.

  1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that he sun.

  1:10 Is there any thing ime, which was before us.

  1:11 There is no remembrance of former things; her shall there be any remembrance of things that are toe er.

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

  1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by h.

  1:14 I have seen all the .

  1:15 Thatbe numbered.

  1:16 Imunedexperience of wisdom and knowledge.

  1:17 And I gave my heart to kno.

  1:18 For in much h sorrow.

  2:1 I said in mi, Go to noy.

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

  2:3 I sought in mi to give myself unto heir life.

  2:4 I made me great ed me vineyards:

  2:5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I plarees in them of all kind of fruits:

  2:6 I made me pools of rees:

  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:

  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 s.

  2:9 So I h me.

  2:10 And ion of all my labour.

  2:11 Then I looked on all the he sun.

  2:12 And I turned myself to behold h been already done.

  2:13 Then I sah darkness.

  2:14 The hem all.

  2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happh to the fool, so it happh even to me; and y.

  2:16 For there is no remembrance of the he fool.

  2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the .

  2:18 Yea, I hated all my labour er me.

  2:19 And y.

  2:20 Therefore I he sun.

  2:21 For there is a manevil.

  2:22 For he sun?

  2:23 For all his days are sorroy.

  2:24 There is nothier 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 sahe hand of God.

  2:25 For han I?

  2:26 Fod giveth to a man that is good in his sight .

  3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose uhe heaven:

  3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that ed;

  3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break doo build up;

  3:4 A time to o dance;

  3:5 A time to cast ao refrain from embrag;

  3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

  3:7 A time to rend, and a time to seo speak;

  3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of ime of peace.

  3:9 rofit hath he that h?

  3:10 I have seeravail, .

  3:11 He hath made every thiiful in his time: also he hath set the he end.

  3:12 I knoo do good in his life.

  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.

  3:14 I kno men should fear before him.

  3:15 That .

  3:16 And moreover I sahere.

  3:17 I said in mi, God shall judge the righteous and the here for every purpose and for every work.

  3:18 I said in mi ing the estate of the sons of men, that God might mahem, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

  3:19 For that y.

  3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  3:21 Who knoh?

  3:22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothier, than that a man should rejoi his oer him?

  4:1 So I returned, and sidered all the oppressions that are done uhe sun: and behold the tears of such as er.

  4:2 Wherefore I praised the deadalive.

  4:3 Yea, better is he than both they, he sun.

  4:4 Again, I sidered all travail, and every right .

  4:5 The fool foldeth his hands together, ah his own flesh.

  4:6 Better is an handful .

  4:7 Then I returned, and I sahe sun.

  4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a sed; yea, he hath her child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; her is his eye satisfied ravail.

  4:9 Their labour.

  4:10 For if they fall, the one o help him up.

  4:11 Again, ifo lie together, then they have heat: but howone be warm alone?

  4:12 And if one prevail against him,o shallquickly broken.

  4:13 Better is a poor and a han an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

  4:14 For out of prison; h poor.

  4:15 I sidered all the living ead.

  4:16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also thate after shall not rejoi him. Surely this also is vanity aion of spirit.

  5:1 Keep thy foot hey do evil.

  5:2 Be not rash hy words be few.

  5:3 For a dreameth through the multitude of business; and a fool"s voice is knoude of words.

  5:4 When thou vo vowed.

  5:5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vo pay.

  5:6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to siher say thou before the ahat it hine hands?

  5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many hou God.

  5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justi a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

  5:9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

  5:10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied y.

  5:11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and heir eyes?

  5:12 The sleep of a lab man is so sleep.

  5:13 There is a sore evil .

  5:14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

  5:15 As he came forth of his mother"s hing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

  5:16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and he wind?

  5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, ah much sorroh his siess.

  5:18 Behold that ion.

  5:19 Every man also toof God.

  5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God ans.

  6:1 There is an evilismon among men:

  6:2 A man tois an evil disease.

  6:3 If a ma an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled han he.

  6:4 For heeth in h darkness.

  6:5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor knoher.

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

  6:7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, ahe appetite is not filled.

  6:8 For he living?

  6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the .

  6:10 That han he.

  6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, er?

  6:12 For he sun?

  7:1 A good name is better than precious oi; and the day of death than the day of one"s birth.

  7:2 It is better to go to the house of m, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living .

  7:3 Sorroer.

  7:4 The heart of the h.

  7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the he song of fools.

  7:6 For as the crag of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

  7:7 Surely oppression maketh a .

  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.

  7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: fer resteth in the bosom of fools.

  7:10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days his.

  7:11 Wisdom is good he sun.

  7:12 For .

  7:13 sider the h made crooked?

  7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity sider: God also hath set the one ainst the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

  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 h his life in his wiess.

  7:16 Be nhteous over mueither make thyself over hyself?

  7:17 Be not over much ime?

  7:18 It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this hem all.

  7:19 Wisdom strengthh the y.

  7:20 For there is not a just man upoh, that doeth good, and sih not.

  7:21 Also take no heed unto all hee:

  7:22 For oftentimes also thine ohers.

  7:23 All this have I proved bywas far from me.

  7:24 That ?

  7:25 I applied mi to knohe wiess of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

  7:26 And I find more bitter thah the aken by her.

  7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, ting one by oo find out the at:

  7:28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but afound.

  7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many iions.

  8:1 Who is as the he boldness of his face shall be ged.

  8:2 I sel thee to keep the king"sma, and that in regard of the oath of God.

  8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth h him.

  8:4 Where the hou?

  8:5 Whoso keepeth thema shall feel no evil thing: and a .

  8:6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

  8:7 For he kno shall be?

  8:8 There is no man that hath po.

  8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every .

  8:10 And so I say.

  8:11 Because sentence against an evil o do evil.

  8:12 Though a sinner do evil an huimes, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I kno fear God, which fear before him:

  8:13 But it shall not bebefod.

  8:14 There is a vanity y.

  8:15 Then Imended mirth, because a man hath er thing uhe sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide he sun.

  8:16 When I applied mi to knoh his eyes:)

  8:17 Then I beheld all the .

  9:1 For all this I sidered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the hem.

  9:2 All thingse alike to all: there is o to the righteous, and to the h.

  9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done uhe sun, that there is o unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart he dead.

  9:4 For to him that is joio all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

  9:5 For the living knoen.

  9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is nohe sun.

  9:7 Go thy hy works.

  9:8 Let thy garments be al.

  9:9 Live joyfully he sun.

  9:10 Whatsoever thy hand fio do, do it .

  9:11 I returned, and sahem all.

  9:12 For man also knohem.

  9:13 This o me:

  9:14 There :

  9:15 No same poor man.

  9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: heless the poor man"sheard.

  9:17 The h among fools.

  9:18 Wisdom is better than h much good.

  10:1 Dead flies cause the oi of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is iation for wisdom and honour.

  10:2 A .

  10:3 Yea also,he is a fool.

  10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

  10:5 There is an evil he ruler:

  10:6 Folly is set i dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

  10:7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes h.

  10:8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and e him.

  10:9 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therehereby.

  10:10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not .

  10:11 Surely the serpent er.

  10:12 The he lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

  10:13 The beginning of the alk is mischievous madness.

  10:14 A fool also is full of ell him?

  10:15 The labour of the foolish y.

  10:16 Woe to thee, O land, he m!

  10:17 Blessed art thou, O land,for drunkenness!

  10:18 By much slothfulhe building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

  10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and hings.

  10:20 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the ri thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that er.

  11:1 Cast thy bread upon the er many days.

  11:2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knoh.

  11:3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall to shall be.

  11:4 He that observeth thereap.

  11:5 As thou knoh all.

  11:6 In the m soh shall be alike good.

  11:7 Truly the light is she sun:

  11:8 But if a man live many years, and rejoi them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All thateth is vanity.

  11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; ahy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and .

  11:10 Therefore remove sorroy.

  12:1 Remember nohem;

  12:2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

  12:3 In the day he windows be darkened,

  12:4 And the doors shall be shut ireets,low;

  12:5 Also s:

  12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden boern.

  12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it .

  12:8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

  12:9 And moreover, because the preacherin order many proverbs.

  12:10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable h.

  12:11 The ers of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

  12:12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a he flesh.

  12:13 Let us hear the clusion of the y of man.

  12:14 Fod shall bring everybe evil.