Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes or, the Preacher
How each chapter begins
- Ecclesiastes 1
Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
- Ecclesiastes 2
I said in my heart, 'Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it [is] vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 3
To everything — a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:
- Ecclesiastes 4
And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and…
- Ecclesiastes 5
Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice…
- Ecclesiastes 6
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it [is] great on man:
- Ecclesiastes 7
Better [is] a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.
- Ecclesiastes 8
Who [is] as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and…
- Ecclesiastes 9
But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their…
- Ecclesiastes 10
Dead flies cause a perfumer's perfume To send forth a stink; The precious by reason of wisdom — By reason of honour — a…
- Ecclesiastes 11
Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.
- Ecclesiastes 12
Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that…