Ecclesiastes 1 Cross References - MKJV

¹ The words of the preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. ² Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. ³ What is the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun? ⁴ A generation passes away, and a generation comes; but the earth remains forever. ⁵ The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arose. ⁶ The wind goes toward the south, and it turns around to the north; it whirls around continually; and the wind returns on its circuits. ⁷ All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, there they return again. ⁸ All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. ⁹ That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. ¹⁰ Is there a thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has already been in days of old, which were before us. ¹¹ There is no memory of former things, and also no memory of after things which shall be; for neither shall be a remembrance of them with those who will be at the afterwards. 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 which is done under the heavens. It is a sad task God has given to the sons of men to be humbled by it. ¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. ¹⁵ What is crooked cannot be made straight; and that lacking cannot be numbered. ¹⁶ I spoke within my own heart, saying, Lo, I have become great and have gathered more wisdom than all that have been before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart has seen much of wisdom and knowledge. ¹⁷ And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I know that this also is vexation of spirit. ¹⁸ For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

¹⁹ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

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

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

²⁰ And Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug. ²¹ And after he fathered Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years. And he fathered sons and daughters. ²² And Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor. ²³ And after he fathered Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters. ²⁴ And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah. ²⁵ And after he fathered Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years. And he fathered sons and daughters. ²⁶ And Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. ²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 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 he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there. ³² And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.

⁹ And these are the generations 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 Basemath the wife of Esau. ¹¹ And the sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. ¹² And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son. And she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These were the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. ¹³ And these were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. ¹⁴ And these were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife. And she bore to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. ¹⁵ These were the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz, ¹⁶ Chief Korah, Chief Gatam, Chief Amalek. These were the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these the sons of Adah. ¹⁷ And these were the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: Chief Nahath, and Chief Zerah, Chief Shammah, Chief Mizzah. These were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. ¹⁸ And these were the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: Chief Jeush, Chief Jaalam, Chief Korah. These were the chiefs of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. ¹⁹ These were the sons of Esau, and these their chiefs. He is Edom.

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

⁶ And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. ⁷ And the sons of Israel were fruitful, and increased very much, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty. And the land was filled with them.

¹⁶ And these were the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven years. ¹⁷ The sons of Gershon: Libni, and Shimei, by their families. ¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred and thirty-three years. ¹⁹ And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These were the families of Levi according to their generations. ²⁰ And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, for his wife. And she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years. ²¹ And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. ²² And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri. ²³ And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, for his wife. And she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ²⁴ And the sons of Korah were Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the families of the Korahites. ²⁵ And Aaron's son Eleazar took his wife of the daughters of Putiel. And she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families. ²⁶ It was Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies. ²⁷ These were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt. It was Moses and Aaron.

¹³ And the sun stood still, and the moon stood still, until the people had avenged themselves on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? And the sun stood still in the midst of the heavens, and did not hasten to go down about a whole day. ¹⁴ And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Jehovah listened to the voice of a man. For Jehovah fought for Israel.

¹² behold, I have done according to your words. Lo, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart, so that there was none like you before you, and after you none shall arise like you. ¹³ And I also have given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like you all your days.

¹ And King Solomon was king over all Israel. ² And these were the rulers which he had: Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, ³ Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha were the scribes. Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud the recorder, ⁴ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army. And Zadok and Abiathar were priests. ⁵ And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers, and Zabud the son of Nathan was the minister and the king's friend. ⁶ And Ahishar was over the household. And Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor. ⁷ And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had his month in a year to provide food. ⁸ These are their names: the son of Hur in Mount Ephraim; ⁹ the son of Dekar in Makaz and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; ¹⁰ the son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him was Sochoh and all the land of Hepher; ¹¹ the son of Abinadab in all the height of Dor, Taphath the daughter of Solomon was a wife to him; ¹² Baana the son of Ahilud to whom was Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah to the place that is beyond Jokneam; ¹³ the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; to him were the towns of Jair, Manasseh's son, which are in Gilead; to him was the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars; ¹⁴ Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim; ¹⁵ Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon for a wife; ¹⁶ Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth; ¹⁷ Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah was in Issachar; ¹⁸ Shimei the son of Elah was in Benjamin; ¹⁹ Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer in the land;

³⁰ And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

³⁰ And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. ³¹ For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame was in all nations all around. ³² And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five.

⁷ And I did not believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen. And behold! The half was not told me. Your wisdom and blessings are more than the fame which I heard.

²³ And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. ²⁴ And all the earth sought Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.

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

²⁰ And Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hand that which he brought. But, as Jehovah 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 Your great people? ¹¹ And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, nor honor, nor the life of your enemies, nor yet have asked for long life but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may judge My people, over whom I have made you king; ¹² wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. And I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before you, nor shall any after you have the like.

¹² And Hiram said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son blessed with judgment and understanding, who might build a house for Jehovah and a house for his kingdom.

²² And King Solomon was greater than 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 forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel.

¹⁷ As for the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. ¹⁸ And King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the forced labor. And the sons of Israel stoned him with stones so that he died. But King Rehoboam was warned to get up into his chariot to flee to Jerusalem. ¹⁹ And Israel rebelled against the house of David until this day.

⁷ And you have also set up prophets to preach about you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah. And now it shall be reported to the king according to these words. And now come and let us talk it over together.

⁶ and would tell you the secrets of His wisdom, that sound wisdom is manifold? Know therefore that God forgets for you some of your iniquity.

²⁸ And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to depart from evil is understanding!

²⁹ And He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who can behold Him? And it may be against a nation and a man together;

⁹ Out of the storeroom comes the tempest; and cold from scattering winds.

¹⁷ You whose clothes warm when He quiets the earth from the south wind?

¹⁰ and set My limit on it, and set bars and doors, ¹¹ and I said, You shall come to here, but no further; and here your proud waves shall stop.

⁴ Tremble, and sin not; speak within your own heart on your bed and be still. Selah.

⁶ The desolations of the enemy have come to an end forever, and You have destroyed the cities; their memorial has perished with them.

⁴ Their line has 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 and he comes forth as a bridegroom from his canopy; he rejoices as a strong man to run a race, ⁶ going forth from the end of the heavens, and its course is to their ends. And there is nothing hid from its heat.

⁵ Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man standing is altogether vanity. Selah. ⁶ Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.

⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I have not kept back My lips, O Jehovah, You know.

¹ To the Chief Musician. A contemplation; for the sons of Korah. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.

⁹ Surely the sons of men are vanity; the sons of men are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are altogether lighter than vanity. ¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

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

⁶ I remember my song in the night; I speak with my own heart, and my spirit carefully searches.

³⁶ His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. ³⁷ It shall be established forever like the moon, and like a faithful witness in the heavens. Selah.

⁴⁷ Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain? ⁴⁸ What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

⁹ For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur. ¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

²⁴ I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days; Your years are through the generation of generations. ²⁵ Of old You have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of Your hands. ²⁶ They shall perish, but You shall endure; yea, all of them shall become old like a garment; like a robe You shall change them, and they shall be changed; ²⁷ but You are He, and Your years shall have no end. ²⁸ The sons of Your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before You.

⁵ He laid the earth on its foundations; it shall not be shaken forever. ⁶ You covered the deep as with a robe; the waters stand above the mountains. ⁷ At Your rebuke they flee; at the voice of Your thunder they hurry away. ⁸ They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which You have founded for them. ⁹ You have set a bound that they may not pass over, so that they do not turn again to cover the earth.

¹⁹ He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down. ²⁰ You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the beasts of the forest creep forth. ²¹ The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. ²² The sun rises; they are gathered, and go to their dens to lie down. ²³ Man goes out to his work and to his labor 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 The works of Jehovah are great, sought out by all those who have pleasure in them.

⁹⁰ Your faithfulness is to all generations; You have founded the earth, and it remains. ⁹¹ They stand to this day according to Your ordinances; for all are Your servants.

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

² so that you attend to wisdom, you shall extend your heart to understanding; ³ yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice for understanding; ⁴ if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,

⁷ Wisdom is the main thing; get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

¹ He that separates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound wisdom.

¹⁵ The heart of the prudent gets knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

⁴ Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own understanding. ⁵ Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

²⁶ My son, give Me your heart, and let your eyes watch My ways.

²⁰ Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

¹⁵ The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give! Three things are never satisfied, yea, four things never say, Enough! ¹⁶ The grave; and the barren womb, the earth not filled with water, and the fire, have not said, 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 which is done under the heavens. It is a sad task God has given to the sons of men to be humbled by 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 to know madness and folly; I know that this also is vexation of spirit.

¹⁷ And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I know that this also is vexation of spirit. ¹⁸ For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

³ I sought in my heart to drag my flesh with wine, yet leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men might be, what they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.

⁹ I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem; also 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 joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor, and this was my part of all my labor. ¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit; and there is no profit under the sun.

¹¹ Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit; and there is no profit under the sun. ¹² And I turned to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king, when they have already done it?

¹² And I turned to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king, when they have already done it?

¹⁵ Then I said in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? And I said in my heart that this also is vanity. ¹⁶ For there is no memory of the wise more than of the fool forever, since that which is now shall all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise die above the fool! ¹⁷ Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is sad to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹⁹ And who knows whether he shall be wise or a fool? Yet he shall have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and acted wisely under the sun. This is also vanity.

²¹ When there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and with success; yet to a man who has not labored in it, he shall leave it for his share. This also is vanity and a great evil. ²² For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun? ²³ For all his days are sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This is also vanity.

²⁶ For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁹ What profit does he have who works in that in which he labors? ¹⁰ I have seen the task which God has given to the sons of men to be humbled by it.

¹⁴ I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God does it so that they fear before Him. ¹⁵ That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past.

¹⁹ For that which happens to the sons of men also happens to beasts, even one thing happens to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast; for all is vanity.

¹ So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter. ² And I commended the dead who already have died, more than the living who are living now. ³ Yea, better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

³ Yea, better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. ⁴ Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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

⁷ And I returned and saw vanity under the sun. ⁸ There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business.

¹⁶ There is no end of all the people, of all who have been before them; they also who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹⁰ He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity.

¹⁰ He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity. ¹¹ When the good thing increases, those who eat it increase; then what profit is it to its owners, except to see it with their eyes?

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

¹⁸ Behold that which I have seen. it is good and right for one to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he labors under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.

⁹ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. ¹⁰ That which has been is named already, and it is known that he is man. And he is not able to contend with Him who is mightier than he. ¹¹ For there are many things that increase vanity, and what is man the better? ¹² For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

¹⁰ Do not say, Why was it that the former days were better than these? For you do not ask wisely in regard to this. ¹¹ Wisdom is good with an inheritance; but it is gain to those who see the sun. ¹² For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it. ¹³ Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what He has made crooked?

¹⁶ Do not be righteous overmuch, neither make yourself overwise; why destroy yourself?

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

²⁴ That which is far off and exceedingly deep, who can find it out? ²⁵ I set my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness;

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

²⁵ I set my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness; ²⁶ and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands like bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her. ²⁷ Behold, this I have found, says the Preacher, counting one by one, to find out the sum,

⁹ All this I have seen, and I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

¹⁵ Then I praised gladness, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be glad; for that shall go with him of his labor for the days of his life which God gives him under the sun. ¹⁶ When I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth; for neither day nor night do men see sleep with their eyes. ¹⁷ Then I looked at all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea, further, though a wise one speaks of knowing, yet he shall not be able to find it.

³ This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, also 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 anything, nor do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten. ⁶ Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; nor do they any longer have a part forever in all that is done under the sun.

¹³ This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

⁵ As you do not know what is the way of the spirit, as how the bones grow in the pregnant woman's womb; even so you do not know the works of God who makes all.

⁸ but if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

¹⁰ Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for childhood and prime of life are vanity.

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

⁸ Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity. ⁹ And more than that, the preacher was wise; he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he listened, and looked, and set in order many proverbs. ¹⁰ The preacher sought to find out pleasing words; and words of truth written by the upright.

¹² And further, by these, my son, be warned: The making of many books has no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

¹² And further, by these, my son, be warned: The making of many books has no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. ¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep His commandments. For this is the whole duty of man.

⁷ Yet he does not plan this, nor does his heart think so. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations. ⁸ For he says, Are not my commanders all like kings? ⁹ Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, and their graven images more than Jerusalem's and Samaria's; ¹¹ shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her idols? ¹² And it will be, when the Lord has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks. ¹³ For he says, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am wise. And I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the people like a strong man. ¹⁴ And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people; and as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none who 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 places shall be made level, and the rough places smooth;

²² Let them bring them out, and tell us what shall happen; let them reveal the former things, what they are, that we may look on them and know the final end of them; or declare to us things to come. ²³ Reveal the near things after this, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, so that we may be amazed and see together. ²⁴ Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination. ²⁵ I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the sunrise; he will call on My name. And he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter tramples clay. ²⁶ Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? Yea, no one declares; yea, no one proclaims; yea, no one hears your words.

⁹ Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they happen, I cause you to hear.

¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall sprout; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.

² Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

¹⁴ who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts out windows for himself, and puts in a cedar ceiling, and paints it with vermilion.

²² How long will you turn to and fro, O faithless daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the land; a woman shall enclose a man.

²⁰ So says Jehovah: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season,

³⁷ Who is this who speaks, and it occurs, when the Lord does not command it?

¹⁰ So says the Lord Jehovah: And it shall be in that day that things shall come into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan. ¹¹ And you shall say, I will go up to the land of open spaces. I will go to those at ease, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and there are no bars nor gates to them,

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

³⁵ And all the people of the earth are counted as nothing; and He does according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the people of the earth. And none can strike His hand, or say to Him, What are You doing?

⁴ But Jehovah hurled a great wind into the sea, and there was a great storm in the sea, so that the ship was thought to be broken.

² Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out to it the proclamation that I am declaring to you.

¹³ Behold, is it not for Jehovah of Hosts that the people labor only for fire; yea, the nations weary themselves only for vanity?

¹⁸ What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols?

¹¹ The sun and moon stood still in their dwelling. At the light of Your arrows they go, and at the shining of Your gleaming spear.

⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

⁶ Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.

¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward in Heaven is great. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

²⁷ Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?

²⁴ Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.

²⁷ And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the wind blew and beat on that house. And it fell, and great was its fall.

²⁸ Come to Me all you who labor 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 you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets; ³² and you fill up 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 it also shall be 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 So also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹ but the day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ Even so it shall be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

⁸ The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

²⁷ Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father sealed Him.

⁵¹ O stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.

¹³ And a south wind blowing softly, thinking to have obtained their purpose, lifting anchor, they sailed along close beside Crete. ¹⁴ But not long after, a stormy wind called Euroclydon beat down on it. ¹⁵ And the ship being seized, and not being able to beat against the wind, giving way we were borne along.

²⁰ For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but because of Him who subjected it on hope

²² And we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. ²³ And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he 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 you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by your own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews; ¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men, ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

²¹ Prove all things, hold fast to the good.

¹⁵ Meditate on these things; be in these things in order that your improvement may appear to all.

⁸ But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

¹⁴ But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

¹³ Who is wise and knowing among you? Let him show his works by his good conduct with meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. ¹⁶ For where envying and strife are, there is confusion and every foul deed. ¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

¹ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

⁵ And He did not spare the old world, but saved Noah the eighth one, a preacher of righteousness, 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 will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up. ¹¹ Then, all these things being about to be dissolved, what sort ought you to be in holy behavior and godliness, ¹² looking for and rushing the coming of the Day of God, on account of which the heavens, being on fire, will melt away, and the elements will melt, burning with heat? ¹³ But according to His promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

¹⁶ They will not hunger any more, nor thirst any more, nor will the sun light on them, nor any heat. ¹⁷ For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will feed them and will lead them to the fountains of living waters. And God will 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 had passed away. And the sea no longer is.

⁵ And He sitting on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said to me, Write, for these words are true and faithful.