Ecclesiastes 6:10 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁰ What is more excellent then man? yet can he not in the lawe get the victory of him that is mightier the he:

⁹ And ye LORDE God called Adam, and sayde vnto him: Where art thou?

¹⁷ And vnto Adam he sayde: For so moch as thou hast herkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tre, wherof I commaunded the, sayenge: thou shalt not eate of it. Cursed be ye earth for thy sake. With sorowe shalt thou eate therof, all the dayes of thy life. ¹⁸ Thornes and thistles shalt it beare vnto the, and thou shalt eate the herbes of the felde. ¹⁹ In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth, whece thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne.

³ Yf he wil argue with him, he shall not be able to answere him vnto one amonge a thousande. ⁴ He is wyse of hert, and mightie in strength. Who euer prospered, that toke parte agaynst him?

³² For he yt I must geue answere vnto, and with whom I go to lawe, is not a man as I am.

¹ Man that is borne of a woman, hath but a shorte tyme to lyue, and is full of dyuerse miseries. ² He cometh vp, and falleth awaye like a floure. He flyeth as it were a shadowe, and neuer continueth in one state. ³ Thinkest thou it now well done, to open thine eyes vpon soch one, and to brynge me before the in iudgment? ⁴ Who can make it cleane, that commeth of an vncleane thinge? No body.

¹³ Why doest thou then stryue agaynst him, because he geueth the no accomptes of all his doinges?

² Can he that stryueth with the Allmightie, be at rest? Shulde not he which disputeth with God, geue him an answere?

⁶ Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge?

⁶ I haue sayde: ye are goddes, ye all are the childre of ye most hyest. ⁷ But ye shal dye like men, & fall like one of the tyrauntes.

¹⁵ That a man in his tyme is but as is grasse, & florisheth as a floure of the felde.

⁹ The thinge yt hath bene, cometh to passe agayne: & ye thinge yt hath bene done, is done agayne, there is no new thinge vnder the Sonne. ¹⁰ Is there eny thinge, wherof it maye be sayde: lo, this is new? For it was loge agoo in the tymes yt haue bene before vs. ¹¹ The thinge yt is past, is out of remebraunce: Eue so the thiges that are for to come, shal no more be thought vpo amoge the that come after.

¹⁵ The thinge yt hath bene, is now: & the thinge yt is for to come, hath bene afore tyme, for God restoreth agayne the thinge that was past.

⁹ Wo be vnto him that chydeth wt his maker, the potsherde with the potter. Saieth ye claye to the potter: What makest thou? or, yi worke serueth for nothige? ¹⁰ Wo be vnto him, yt saieth to his father: why begettest thou? And to his mother: why bearest thou?

¹⁹ Beholde, like as the Lyon cometh vp from the pleasaunt medowes of Iordane vnto ye grene pastures of Etha, so wil I dryue him, & make him runne agaynst her. But who is the yonge man that I will ordene therto? Who is like, vnto me? What is he that will stryue with me? What shepherde maye stonde in my hondes?

¹⁹ Thou wilt saye then vnto me: Why blameth he vs yet? For who can resiste his will? ²⁰ O thou man, who art thou, that disputest with God? Sayeth the worke to his workman: Why hast thou made me on this fashion?