Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes or, the Preacher
How each chapter begins
- Ecclesiastes 1
The words of the preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.
- Ecclesiastes 2
I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and behold, this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 3
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
- Ecclesiastes 4
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were…
- Ecclesiastes 5
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…
- Ecclesiastes 6
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common 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 man ? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and…
- Ecclesiastes 9
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are…
- Ecclesiastes 10
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth an offensive odor: so doth a little folly him that is in…
- Ecclesiastes 11
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
- Ecclesiastes 12
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou…