Ecclesiastes Cross References - EJ2000

¹ ¶ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. ² Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ³ What profit does a man have of all his labour which he takes under the sun? ⁴ ¶ One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth abides for ever. ⁵ The sun arises, and the sun goes down, and with desire returns to his place from which he arises again. ⁶ The wind goes toward the south and turns about unto the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to its circuits. ⁷ All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, there they return again. ⁸ All things are full of labour; more than man can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing. ⁹ ¶ The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun. ¹⁰ Is there any thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time which was before us. ¹¹ There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. ¹² ¶ I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. ¹³ And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven (this sore travail God has given to the sons of man that they be occupied in it). ¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. ¹⁵ That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is lacking cannot be numbered. ¹⁶ I communed with my own heart, saying, Behold, I am come to great estate and have gotten more wisdom than all those that have been before me in Jerusalem; and my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. ¹⁷ And I gave my heart to know wisdom and knowledge and to know folly and those who are mad; I learned in the end that this also is vexation of spirit. ¹⁸ For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

¹⁹ in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

³ And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth: ⁴ And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters; ⁵ and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. ⁶ ¶ And Seth lived one hundred and five years and begat Enos. ⁷ And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters; ⁸ and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. ⁹ And Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan, ¹⁰ and Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years and begat sons and daughters; ¹¹ and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died. ¹² And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel; ¹³ and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years and begat sons and daughters; ¹⁴ and all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. ¹⁵ And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years and begat Jared; ¹⁶ and Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters; ¹⁷ and all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety-five years and he died. ¹⁸ And Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years and he begat Enoch; ¹⁹ and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years and begat sons and daughters; ²⁰ and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, and he died. ²¹ ¶ And Enoch lived sixty-five years and begat Methuselah; ²² And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters; ²³ and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years. ²⁴ And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. ²⁵ ¶ And Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and begat Lamech; ²⁶ and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years and begat sons and daughters; ²⁷ and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, and he died. ²⁸ ¶ And Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years and begat a son; ²⁹ and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the LORD has cursed. ³⁰ And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety-five years and begat sons and daughters; ³¹ and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, and he died.

²² While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

²⁰ And Reu lived thirty-two years and begat Serug; ²¹ and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters. ²² And Serug lived thirty years and begat Nahor; ²³ and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years and begat sons and daughters. ²⁴ And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and begat Terah; ²⁵ and Nahor lived after he begat Terah one hundred and nineteen years and begat sons and daughters. ²⁶ And Terah lived seventy years and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ²⁷ ¶ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nature, in Ur of the Chaldees. ²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. ³⁰ But Sarai was barren; she had no child. ³¹ And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran and dwelt there. ³² And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

⁹ ¶ And these are the lineages of Esau, the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir. ¹⁰ These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Bashemath, the wife of Esau. ¹¹ And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. ¹² And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son, and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek: these are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife. ¹³ And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these were the sons of Bashemath, Esau’s wife. ¹⁴ And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she gave birth unto Esau Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah. ¹⁵ These are dukes of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn son of Esau: duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, ¹⁶ duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. ¹⁷ And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife. ¹⁸ And these are the sons of Aholibamah, Esau’s wife: duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah; these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife. ¹⁹ These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.

⁹ And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

⁶ And Joseph died and all his brethren and all that generation. ⁷ And the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their lineages: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years. ¹⁷ The sons of Gershon: Libni, and Shimi, according to their families. ¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years. ¹⁹ And the sons of Merari: Mahali and Mushi; these are the families of Levi according to their lineages. ²⁰ And Amram took Jochebed, his father’s sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were one hundred thirty-seven years. ²¹ And the sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. ²² And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Zithri. ²³ And Aaron took Elizabeth, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ²⁴ And the sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korhites. ²⁵ And Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families. ²⁶ These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts. ²⁷ These are those who spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.

¹³ And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed until the nation had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of righteousness? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day. ¹⁴ And there was no day like that before it or after it that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.

¹² behold, I have done according to thy words: behold, I have given thee a wise and understanding heart so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. 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 in all thy days.

¹ ¶ So king Solomon was king over all Israel. ² And these were the princes which he had: Azariah, the son of Zadok, the priest, ³ Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes, Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, writer of the chronicles; ⁴ Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests; ⁵ Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over the officers; and Zabud, the son of Nathan, was the priest and special companion of the king; ⁶ and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram, the son of Abda, was over the tribute. ⁷ And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who maintained the king and his household. Each one of them made provision for one month in the year. ⁸ And these are their names: The son of Hur, in Mount Ephraim; ⁹ the son of Dekar, in Makaz and in Shaalbim and in Bethshemesh and in Elon and in Bethhanan; ¹⁰ the son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh and all the land of Hepher. ¹¹ The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor, who had Taphath, the daughter of Solomon, to wife; ¹² Baana, the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam; ¹³ the son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which were in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brasen bars; ¹⁴ Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; ¹⁵ Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath, the daughter of Solomon, to wife. ¹⁶ Baanah, the son of Hushai, was in Asher and in Aloth; ¹⁷ Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar; ¹⁸ Shimei, the son of Elah, in Benjamin; ¹⁹ Geber, the son of Uri, was in the land of Gilead, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and of Og, king of Bashan; and in addition to these there was an officer over all the land.

³⁰ And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of the Egyptians.

³⁰ And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of the Egyptians. ³¹ For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan, the Ezrahite, and Heman and Chalcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he was named in all nations round about. ³² And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

⁷ But I did not believe it until I came, and my eyes have seen that not even the half was told me. Thy wisdom and good exceeds the fame which I heard.

²³ So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. ²⁴ And all the earth sought to see the face of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

⁴² And the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. ⁴³ And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

²⁰ ¶ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman, this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him.

¹⁰ Give me now wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this thy people, that is so great? ¹¹ And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth or glory, nor the life of thy enemies, neither yet hast asked long life, but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou may judge my people, over whom I have placed thee as king, ¹² wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will also give thee riches and wealth and glory such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall any after thee have the like.

¹² Hiram said, moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made the heavens and the earth, who has given to King David a wise son with knowledge, good sense and understanding, that he might build a house for the LORD and a house for his kingdom.

²² And King Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. ²³ And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

³⁰ And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

¹⁷ But Rehoboam reigned over the sons of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah. ¹⁸ Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the tribute and the sons of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. So King Rehoboam made speed to get into a chariot and fled to Jerusalem. ¹⁹ Thus Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

⁷ And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah! And now these words shall be heard by the king. Come now, therefore, and let us take counsel together.

⁶ and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For thou dost deserve double according to sound wisdom; and thou dost know that God has forgotten thee because of thine iniquity.

²⁸ And unto man he said, Behold, that the fear of the Lord, is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

²⁹ When he gives rest, who then can make trouble? If he hides his face, who then can behold him? This applies to a nation and the same to a man,

⁹ Out of the south comes the whirlwind and cold out of the north wind.

¹⁷ How thy garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind?

¹⁰ and established my decree upon it, and set bars and doors, ¹¹ and said, Thou shalt come unto here, but no further; and there shall the pride of thy waves be stayed.

⁴ Stand in awe, and sin not; meditate in your heart upon your bed, and desist. Selah.

⁶ O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and the cities that thou hast destroyed; their memorial is perished with them.

⁴ Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun, ⁵ which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. ⁶ His going forth is from the end of the heavens, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before thee; verily every man that lives is altogether vanity. Selah. ⁶ Surely man walks in darkness; surely they are disquieted in vain; they heap up riches not knowing who shall gather them.

⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

¹ To the Overcomer: Maschil,
for the sons of Korah. ¶ As the hart pants after the water brooks, so does my soul pant after thee, O God.

⁹ Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. ¹⁰ Trust not in violence and become not vain in the taking of spoil; if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

⁵ My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips

⁶ I call to remembrance my songs of the night; I commune with my own heart, and my spirit made diligent search.

³⁶ His seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the sun before me. ³⁷ It shall be established for ever as the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is; why hast thou made all men subject to vanity? ⁴⁸ What man is he that lives and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah.

⁹ For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word. ¹⁰ The days of our years are seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength is labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

²⁴ I said, O my God, do not cut me off in the midst of my days; thy years are from generation to generation. ²⁵ Of old thou hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed: ²⁷ But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. ²⁸ The sons of thy slaves shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

⁵ who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved by any age. ⁶ Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. ⁷ At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. ⁸ The mountains were exposed; they descended through the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. ⁹ Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over, that they not turn again to cover the earth.

¹⁹ ¶ He appointed the moon for times and seasons; the sun knows his going down. ²⁰ Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest move. ²¹ The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God. ²² The sun arises, they withdraw and lay themselves down in their dens. ²³ Man goes forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

²⁵ For he commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

²⁹ He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

² Gimel The works of the LORD are great, Daleth sought out by all those that have pleasure therein.

⁹⁰ Thy truth is from generation to generation; thou hast established the earth, and it perseveres. ⁹¹ They persevere unto this day by thy ordinance; for they are all thy slaves.

⁴ Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

² so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to intelligence, ³ yea, if thou criest for understanding and givest thy voice unto intelligence, ⁴ if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures,

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

¹ ¶ Whosoever goes astray seeks according to his own lust and shall meddle with every doctrine.

¹⁵ ¶ The heart of the man of understanding acquires wisdom, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

⁴ ¶ Do not labour to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom. ⁵ Wilt thou set thine eyes upon riches which are not? For they shall certainly make themselves wings; they shall fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

²⁶ My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

²⁰ ¶ Sheol and hell are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

¹⁵ ¶ The horseleach has two daughters, which are called, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: ¹⁶ Sheol; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that never says, It is enough.

¹ ¶ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

¹² ¶ I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. ¹³ And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven (this sore travail God has given to the sons of man that they be occupied in it). ¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹⁷ And I gave my heart to know wisdom and knowledge and to know folly and those who are mad; I learned in the end that this also is vexation of spirit.

¹⁷ And I gave my heart to know wisdom and knowledge and to know folly and those who are mad; I learned in the end that this also is vexation of spirit. ¹⁸ For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

³ I proposed in my heart to regale my flesh with wine and that my heart would walk in wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

⁹ So I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem, and more than that, my wisdom remained with me. ¹⁰ And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion of all my labour. ¹¹ At last I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

¹¹ At last I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. ¹² ¶ And I turned myself to behold wisdom and those who are mad, and folly; for what can the man do that comes after the king? even that which has already been done.

¹² ¶ And I turned myself to behold wisdom and those who are mad, and folly; for what can the man do that comes after the king? even that which has already been done.

¹⁵ Then I said in my heart, As it shall happen to the fool, so it shall happen even to me. Why have I worked until now to make myself wiser? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity. ¹⁶ For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever, seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And also the wise man shall die the same as the fool. ¹⁷ ¶ Therefore I hated life because every work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all was vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹⁹ And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool, he who shall have rule over all my labour in which I have laboured and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun? This is also vanity.

²¹ That the man who worked with wisdom and with knowledge and with uprightness would have to leave his portion to a man that has not laboured therein. This also is vanity and a great evil. ²² For what does man have of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart in which he has laboured under the sun? ²³ For all his days are only sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This is also vanity.

²⁶ For God gives to the man that is good in his sight wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to the one that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁹ What profit does the one that works have in that in which he labours? ¹⁰ I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men that they may be occupied in it.

¹⁴ I have understood that whatever God does, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it because God does it that men should fear before him. ¹⁵ That which has been is now, and that which is to be has already been and God shall seek that which is past.

¹⁹ For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; and they all have one breath; so that a man has no more breath than a beast: for all is vanity.

¹ ¶ So I returned and considered all the violence that is done under the sun and behold the tears of such as are oppressed, and they have no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but the oppressed had no comforter. ² Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive. ³ And I thought that better is he than both of them who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil works that are done under the sun.

³ And I thought that better is he than both of them who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil works that are done under the sun. ⁴ ¶ Again, I considered all travail and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁴ ¶ Again, I considered all travail and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁷ ¶ Then I returned, and I saw another vanity under the sun. ⁸ It is the man who is alone, without a successor, who has neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity and sore travail.

¹⁶ There is no end of all the people that have been before them; those also that come after shall not be content in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹⁰ He that loves money shall not be satisfied with money; nor he that loves abundance with increase; this is also vanity.

¹⁰ He that loves money shall not be satisfied with money; nor he that loves abundance with increase; this is also vanity. ¹¹ When goods increase, those that eat them are increased; and what good is there to the owners thereof, except the beholding of them with their eyes?

¹⁶ And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?

¹⁸ ¶ Behold therefore the good which I have seen: that good is to eat and to drink and to enjoy of the good of all his labour that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.

⁹ It is better to enjoy the good that is present than the wandering of desire; this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. ¹⁰ He that is has been named already; and it is known that he is man and that he shall not be able to contend with him that is mightier than he. ¹¹ ¶ Certainly the many words multiply vanity, what more does man have? ¹² For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of the life of his vanity which he causes to be as a shadow? for who shall teach the man what shall be after him under the sun?

¹⁰ Never say, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. ¹¹ ¶ Knowledge is good with an inheritance and is the excellency of those that see the sun. ¹² For knowledge is a defence, and money is a defence; but wisdom excels in that it gives life to those that have it. ¹³ Consider the work of God; for who can make straight that which he has twisted?

¹⁶ Do not be too legalistic; neither make thyself over wise in thine own eyes: why should thou destroy thyself?

²³ ¶ All this I have proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me. ²⁴ That which has been is far off and that which is exceeding deep, who can find it out?

²⁴ That which has been is far off and that which is exceeding deep, who can find it out? ²⁵ I applied my heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the madness of error;

²⁵ I applied my heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the madness of error;

²⁵ I applied my heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the madness of error; ²⁶ and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are bonds; whosoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be held prisoner in her. ²⁷ Behold, this I have found, saith the preacher, weighing things one by one to find out the answer,

⁹ ¶ All this I have seen and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: the time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

¹⁵ Therefore I commended joy because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry, for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun. ¹⁶ Therefore I applied mine heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes). ¹⁷ And I have seen regarding all the works of God that man cannot attain to understand the work that is being done under the sun, because though a man labours to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; even though the wise man says that he knows it, yet he shall not be able to attain it.

³ This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all; and also that the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

⁵ For the living know that they shall die, but the dead do not know any thing; neither do they have any more reward, for their memory is placed into oblivion. ⁶ Even their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion in the age in any thing that is done under the sun.

¹³ ¶ I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, which is important unto me:

⁵ As thou dost not know what is the way of the spirit nor how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou dost not know the works of God who makes all.

⁸ but if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity.

¹⁰ Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

⁸ ¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

⁸ ¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity. ⁹ And the wiser the preacher became that much more did he teach wisdom to the people, causing them to listen and to search things out, and he composed many proverbs. ¹⁰ The preacher sought to find willing words and upright writings, even words of truth.

¹² My son, in addition to this, be admonished: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

¹² My son, in addition to this, be admonished: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. ¹³ ¶ The conclusion of the entire sermon is heard: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole happiness of man.

⁷ Howbeit he shall not think like this; not even in his heart shall he imagine this way of doing things, but his thought shall be to destroy and cut off nations not a few. ⁸ For he shall say, Are not my princes altogether kings? ⁹ Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; ¹¹ shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? ¹² Therefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will come upon the fruit of the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and upon the glory of his high looks. ¹³ For he said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have been prudent: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and I have cast down as valiant ones those who were seated: ¹⁴ And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples: and as one gathers eggs that are left, I have taken control over all the earth; and there was no one that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

⁴ Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places made plain:

²² Let them bring forth and declare unto us what shall happen; tell us what has happened from the beginning, and we shall consider it in our hearts; and we shall know what his end shall be, and cause us to understand that which is to come. ²³ Give us news of that which is to come hereafter that we may know that ye are gods; or at least do good or do evil that we may have something to tell, and together we shall marvel. ²⁴ Behold, ye are of nothing and your works of vanity; an abomination is he that chooses you. ²⁵ I have raised up one from the north, and he came from the rising of the sun; he called in my name and came unto princes as upon clay and as the potter treads clay. ²⁶ Who has declared from the beginning, that we shall know? and beforetime that we shall say, He is righteous? yea, there is no one that declares this, yea, there is no one that teaches, yea, there is no one that hears your words.

⁹ Behold, the former things are come to pass, and I declare new things: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing; it shall come to light quickly; shall ye not know it? I will again make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

² Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

¹ ¶ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to preach good tidings unto those who are cast down; to bind up the wounds of the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those that are bound;

¹⁴ That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts out windows in it and covers it with cedar and anoints it with vermilion.

²² How long wilt thou wander, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD will bring forth a new thing upon the earth, A woman shall compass the man.

²⁰ Thus hath the LORD said; If ye can break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, such that there should not be day nor night in their season,

³⁷ ¶ Mem Who shall he be that saith that something comes which the Lord has not sent?

¹⁰ Thus hath the Lord GOD said: It shall also come to pass in that day, that words shall rise up in thy heart, and thou shalt conceive an evil thought: ¹¹ and thou shalt say, I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will go against those that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

³⁰ the king spoke and said, Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my greatness?

³⁵ and all the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing; and in the army of heaven and in the inhabitants of the earth, he does according to his will; nor is there anyone who can interfere with his hand and say unto him, What doest thou?

⁴ ¶ But the LORD caused a great wind to rise up in the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship thought she would be broken.

² Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

¹³ Is this not of the LORD of the hosts? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire, and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain.

¹⁸ Of what profit is the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?

¹¹ The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

⁵ Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

¹² Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

²⁷ Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

²⁴ Therefore, whosoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him unto a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;

²⁷ and the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.

²⁸ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

²⁶ For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ Therefore ye are witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

³⁶ For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? ³⁷ Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹ but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

⁸ The wind blows where it desires, and thou hearest the sound of it, but canst not tell from where it comes or where it goes; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

²⁷ Labour not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him has God the Father sealed.

⁵¹ ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye.

¹³ And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, raising sails, they sailed close by Crete. ¹⁴ But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. {devastating cold north wind from Europe} ¹⁵ And when the ship was caught up by it and could not resist against the wind, the ship was taken by the wind and drifted.

²⁰ For the creatures were subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected them,

²² For we now know that all the creatures groan together and travail in pain together until now. ²³ And not only they, but ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is to say, the redemption of our body.

¹⁸ ¶ Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you seems to be wise in this age, let them become a fool that they may be wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness. ²⁰ And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

¹⁴ For ye, brethren, have been imitators in Christ Jesus of the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of God which are in Judaea, for ye also have suffered like things of your own nation, even as they have of the Jews, ¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us, and they do not please God and are contrary to all men, ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up the measure of their sins always, for the wrath of God has come upon them to the uttermost.

²¹ Examine all things; retain that which is good.

¹⁵ Occupy thyself in these things with care, for in this is everything, that thy profiting may be manifest unto all.

⁸ And in the manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth, men of corrupt understanding, reprobate concerning the faith.

¹⁴ But strong food belongs to those that are perfect, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

¹³ ¶ Who is wise and ready among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not that which descends from above, but is earthly, natural, diabolical. ¹⁶ For where there is envy and contention, there is confusion and every perverse work. ¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, modest, benevolent, full of mercy and of good fruits, not judgmental, unfeigned.

¹ ¶ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who covertly shall bring in destructive sects and shall deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

⁵ and if he did not forgive the old world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven other persons, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements, burning, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up. ¹¹ ¶ Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, ¹² waiting for and desiring earnestly for the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? ¹³ Nevertheless we, according to his promises, wait for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

¹⁶ They shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun be thrust upon them nor any other heat. ¹⁷ For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall govern them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

¹ ¶ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

⁵ And he that was seated upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are faithful and true.