Ecclesiastes 6 Cross References - Darby

¹ There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is frequent among men: ² one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil. ³ If a man beget a hundred [sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he. ⁴ For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness; ⁵ moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other. ⁶ Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? ⁷ All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. ⁸ For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? ⁹ Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind. ¹⁰ That which is hath already been named; and what man is, is known, and that he cannot contend with him that is mightier than he. ¹¹ For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged? ¹² For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?

⁹ And Jehovah Elohim called to Man, and said to him, Where art thou?

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; ¹⁸ and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. ¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

⁵ And all the days of Adam that he lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. ²⁴ And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

¹ And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty ?God: walk before my face, and be perfect.

⁵ And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children that God has graciously given thy servant.

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.

⁷ For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of water-brooks, of springs, and of deep waters, that gush forth in the valleys and hills; ⁸ a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; ⁹ a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, where thou shalt lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose mountains thou wilt dig copper. ¹⁰ And thou shalt eat and be filled, and shalt bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

³³ The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually.

⁴³ The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.

¹⁰ When ye go in, ye shall come to a people secure, and the land is spacious in every direction; for God has given it into your hands; [it is] a place where there is no want of anything that is on the earth.

²⁰ And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Jehovah give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to Jehovah. And they went to their own home. ²¹ So Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before Jehovah.

¹³ And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and glory; so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.

³⁵ And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands.

¹ Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the princes of Jizreel, to the elders, and to Ahab`s guardians, saying,

⁵ and of all my sons, (for Jehovah has given me many sons,) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel.

¹⁵ For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope [of life].

²⁵ And Jehovah magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him royal majesty such as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

²⁸ And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour; and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

¹¹ And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of them that hate thee, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked for thyself wisdom and knowledge, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

²¹ And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

¹¹ And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king`s wrath was appeased.

¹⁴ And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman`s ten sons. ¹⁵ And the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but they laid not their hand on the prey.

²¹ and he said, Naked came I out of my mother`s womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah!

¹⁰ Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes. ¹¹ Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire? ¹² Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck? ¹³ For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

¹⁶ Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

⁷ Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.

⁹ For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.

³ If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand. ⁴ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peace?

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; that we should come together in judgment.

¹ Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

¹ Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. ² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.

² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not. ³ Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? ⁴ Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!

²¹ His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.

⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them. ¹⁰ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. ¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. ¹² They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. ¹³ They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol. ¹⁴ And they say unto ?God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways! ¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?

²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

⁷ If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

¹³ Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

² Shall he that will contend with the Almighty instruct [him]? he that reproveth +God, let him answer it.

⁶ Many say, Who shall cause us to see good? Lift up upon us the light of thy countenance, O Jehovah.

⁶ Many say, Who shall cause us to see good? Lift up upon us the light of thy countenance, O Jehovah. ⁷ Thou hast put joy in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their new wine was in abundance.

⁵ Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

¹⁴ From men [who are] thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in [this] life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their children. ¹⁵ As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

¹² What man is he that desireth life, [and] loveth days, that he may see good?

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah. ⁶ Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

⁶ Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

⁴ He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

⁸ Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

⁶ Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them [as] a garment; ⁷ Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:

⁶ I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High; ⁷ But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

⁴⁷ Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

⁷ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought. ¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. ¹¹ Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee? ¹² So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.

² I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. When wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.

¹¹ My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:

¹³ Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:

²³ I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;

⁹ I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living.

⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. ⁵ Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate.

⁴ Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

²⁶ The appetite of the labourer laboureth for him, for his mouth urgeth him on.

⁶ Children`s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

¹ Better is a poor [man] that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

¹⁵ The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three [things] never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough: ¹⁶ -- Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.

² Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities! all is vanity.

⁶ The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about towards the north: it turneth about continually, and the wind returneth again to its circuits. ⁷ All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full: unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again. ⁸ All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. ⁹ That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which will be done: and there is nothing new under the sun.

⁹ That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which will be done: and there is nothing new under the sun. ¹⁰ Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already in the ages which were before us. ¹¹ There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be remembrance of things that are to come with those who shall live afterwards.

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

¹⁷ And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind. ¹⁸ For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

³ I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.

³ I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life. ⁴ I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

⁴ I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards; ⁵ I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;

⁵ I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit; ⁶ I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared.

⁶ I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared. ⁷ I acquired servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that had been in Jerusalem before me.

⁷ I acquired servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that had been in Jerusalem before me. ⁸ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines.

⁸ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines. ⁹ And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

⁹ And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. ¹⁰ And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.

¹⁰ And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour. ¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do [them]; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do [them]; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

¹⁴ The wise man`s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all. ¹⁵ And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity. ¹⁶ For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?

²² For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun? ²³ For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. ²⁴ There is nothing good for man, but that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

¹² I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life; ¹³ yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift of God.

¹⁵ That which is was long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God bringeth back again that which is past.

¹⁹ For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is vanity. ²⁰ All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.

²² And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

¹ And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, and they had no comforter. ² Then I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive; ³ and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

³ and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. ⁴ And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man`s jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

⁴ And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man`s jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

⁸ There is one [alone] and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.

¹⁶ [There is] no end of all the people, of all that stood before them; those however that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after the wind.

⁷ For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.

¹⁰ He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity. ¹¹ When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?

¹³ There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

¹⁶ And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind? ¹⁷ All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation. ¹⁸ Behold what I have seen good and comely: [it is] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith [man] laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.

¹⁸ Behold what I have seen good and comely: [it is] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith [man] laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion. ¹⁹ Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.

¹⁹ Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.

² one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil. ³ If a man beget a hundred [sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.

⁷ for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

¹³ but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God.

⁶ Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.

⁹ Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.

⁷ and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.

¹³ Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.

¹⁹ but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, covered with the slain -- those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit: like a carcase trodden under foot. ²⁰ Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.

⁹ Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands? ¹⁰ Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, What begettest thou? Or to [his] mother, What hast thou brought forth?

²⁰ There shall be no more thenceforth an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not completed his days; for the youth shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

²² they shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

²⁰ For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the harlot.

² and they shall spread them out to the sun and to the moon and to all the host of the heavens, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the ground.

⁶ And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

¹⁹ He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged along and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

³⁰ Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

¹⁹ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will make them suddenly run away from it; and who is a chosen [man] whom I shall appoint over her? For who is like me? and who will assign me a time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

²⁴ Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. ²⁵ Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him. ²⁶ It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah. ²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:

² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

¹⁸ O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;

⁹ Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it] not.

¹ Ephraim feedeth on wind, and pursueth after the east wind: all day long he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

⁸ He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

²⁵ For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

²⁴ The Son of man goes indeed, according as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; it were good for that man if he had not been born.

⁶ And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.

¹⁹ and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry. ²⁰ But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?

²⁷ Work not [for] the food which perishes, but [for] the food which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give to you; for him has the Father sealed, [even] God.

¹⁹ Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose? ²⁰ Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

⁶ But piety with contentment *is* great gain. ⁷ For we have brought nothing into the world: [it is] [manifest] that neither can we carry anything out. ⁸ But having sustenance and covering, we will be content with these.

¹⁷ Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for [our] enjoyment;

²⁷ And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;

¹⁴ ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)