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Ecclesiastes 1:3  What profit has man of all his labor wherein he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:8  All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that comes after the king even that which has been done long ago?

 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Ecclesiastes 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness, and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Ecclesiastes 2:16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten.  And how does the wise man die even as the fool!

Ecclesiastes 2:18 And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man that shall be after me.

Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool?  Yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun.  This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet to a man that has not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion.  This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor.  This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 For to the man that pleases Him God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner He gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleases God.  This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time: also He has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yes, they have all one breath, and man has no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 3:22 Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him back to see what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 4:4  Then I saw all labor and every skillful work, that a man does who is envious of his neighbor.  This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him, and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not let him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor-this is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 6:2  a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat thereof, but an alien eats it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 6:3  If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

 6:4  for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

 6:5  moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it; this has rest rather than the other:

 6:6 yes, though he live a thousand years twice fold, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 6:7  All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Ecclesiastes 6:8  For what advantage has the wise more than the fool or what has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

 6:9  Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 6:10 Whatsoever has been, the name thereof was given long ago, and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:11 Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow; for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:5  It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:7  Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Ecclesiastes 7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything that shall be after him.

Ecclesiastes 7:15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity.  There is a righteous man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his evil-doing.

Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that does good, and does not sin.

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

 7:27 “Behold, this have I found,”  said the Preacher, “laying one thing to another, to find out the account;

Ecclesiastes 7:28 which my soul still seeks, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 “Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”

Ecclesiastes 8:1  Who is as the wise man and who knows the interpretation of a thing?  A man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Ecclesiastes 8:5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall know no evil thing, and a wise man's heart discerns time and judgment:

Ecclesiastes 8:6  for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him:

 8:7  for he does not know that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 8:8  There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power over the day of death, and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

Ecclesiastes 8:9  All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man has power over another to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

 8:16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

Ecclesiastes 8:17 then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yes moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Ecclesiastes 9:1  For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man does not know it; all is before them.

Ecclesiastes 9:12 For man also does not know his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

Ecclesiastes 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:16 Then said I, “Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.”

Ecclesiastes 10:2  A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Ecclesiastes 10:14 A fool also multiplies words: yet man does not know what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Ecclesiastes 11:8  Yes, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.  All that comes is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 11:9  Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know you, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 12:5 yes, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way, and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

 12:6  before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

 12:7  and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 This is the end of the matter; all has been heard: fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

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Ecclesiastes 4:9  Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Ecclesiastes 4:16 There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him.  Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 12:9  And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

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