ylt - Ecclesiastes:1-4

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:2 @Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole [is] vanity.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @What advantage [is] to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:4 @A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:5 @Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:6 @Going unto the south, and turning round unto the north, turning round, turning round, the wind is going, and by its circuits the wind hath returned.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:7 @All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:8 @All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:9 @What [is] that which hath been? it [is] that which is, and what [is] that which hath been done? it [is] that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @There is a thing of which [one] saith: 'See this, it [is] new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:11 @There is not a remembrance of former [generations]; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:12 @I, a preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:13 @And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It [is] a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:14 @I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit!

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:15 @A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:16 @I -- I spake with my heart, saying, 'I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this [is] vexation of spirit;

ylt@Ecclesiastes:1:18 @for, in abundance of wisdom [is] abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @I said in my heart, 'Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it [is] vanity.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @Of laughter I said, 'Foolish!' and of mirth, 'What [is] this it is doing?'

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where [is] this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man -- a wife and wives.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what [is] the man who cometh after the king? that which [is] already -- they have done it!

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:13 @And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @The wise! -- his eyes [are] in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @and I said in my heart, 'As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this [is] vanity:

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:16 @That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which [is] already, [in] the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @And I have hated life, for sad to me [is] the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:18 @And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:19 @And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also [is] vanity.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:20 @And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this [is] vanity and a great evil.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:23 @For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also [is] vanity.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:25 @For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

ylt@Ecclesiastes:2:26 @For to a man who [is] good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:1 @To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:2 @A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:3 @A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:4 @A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:5 @A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:6 @A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:7 @A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:8 @A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:10 @I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:11 @The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:13 @yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it [is] a gift of God.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:14 @I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:15 @What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which [is] to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:16 @And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there [is] the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there [is] the wicked.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @I said in my heart, 'The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time [is] to every matter and for every work there.'

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves [are] beasts.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @For an event [is to] the sons of man, and an event [is to] the beasts, even one event [is] to them; as the death of this, so [is] the death of that; and one spirit [is] to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole [is] vanity.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:20 @The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:21 @Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?

ylt@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it [is] his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:1 @And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors [is] power, and they have no comforter.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:2 @And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:3 @And better than both of them [is] he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:4 @And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:5 @The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:6 @'Better [is] a handful [with] quietness, than two handfuls [with] labour and vexation of spirit.'

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:7 @And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:8 @There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], 'For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:9 @The two [are] better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:10 @For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:11 @Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:12 @And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:13 @Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:14 @For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:15 @I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;

ylt@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

ylt@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.