Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiates or, The Preacher
How each chapter begins
- Ecclesiastes 1
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
- Ecclesiastes 2
I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 3
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens:
- Ecclesiastes 4
And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and…
- Ecclesiastes 5
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools…
- Ecclesiastes 6
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is frequent among men:
- Ecclesiastes 7
A [good] name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
- Ecclesiastes 8
Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the explanation of things? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the…
- Ecclesiastes 9
For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their…
- Ecclesiastes 10
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to stink [and] ferment; [so] a little folly is weightier than wisdom…
- Ecclesiastes 11
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
- Ecclesiastes 12
And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou…