noyes - Ecclesiastes:5-8

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @ Look well to thy feet, when thou goest to the house of God, and draw nigh to hear, rather than to offer sacrifice as fools. For they consider not that they do evil.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:2 @ Be not hasty with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be swift to utter any thing before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth. Therefore let thy words be few.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:3 @ For a dream cometh with much bustle, and a fools voice with a multitude of words.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:4 @ When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools. Pay that which thou hast vowed.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @ Better is it that thou shouldst not vow than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Suffer not thy mouth to bring punishment on thy flesh, and say not before the angel, "It was a mistake." Wherefore should God be angry on account of thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:7 @ For in a multitude of dreams is a multitude of vanities; so also in a multitude of words; but fear thou God!

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:8 @ If thou seest oppression of the poor, and justice and equity perverted in a province, be not alarmed at the matter. For over the high there is a higher, who watcheth, and there is one higher than they all.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:9 @ An advantage to a land in all respects is a king over cultivated ground.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and he that loveth riches shall have no profit from them. This also is vanity.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage hath the owner thereof, save the beholding of them with his eyes?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:12 @ Sweet is the sleep of a laboring man, whether he have eaten little or much; but the repletion of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:13 @ There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:14 @ For those riches perish by some calamity, and, if he have a son, there is nothing in his hand.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:15 @ As he came forth from his mothers womb naked, so shall he go away again, as he came, and shall take away nothing of his labor which he may carry in his hand.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ This is also a sore evil, that, in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit is there to him who toileth for wind?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:17 @ Also all his days he ate in darkness, and had much grief and anxiety and vexation.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:18 @ Behold, what I have seen is, that it is good and proper for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor which he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him; for it is his portion.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:19 @ To whatever man also God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him to enjoy them, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:5:20 @ For he will not much remember the days of his life; for God answereth him with the joy of his heart.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:1 @ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lieth heavy upon men;

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:2 @ a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, and nothing is wanting to him of all which he desireth, yet God giveth him not to taste thereof; but a stranger enjoyeth it. This is vanity, yea, a grievous evil.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:3 @ Though a man have a hundred children, and live many years, and though the days of his years be many, if his soul be not satisfied with good, and he have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:4 @ This, indeed, cometh in nothingness, and goeth down into darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:5 @ it hath not seen the sun, nor known it; yet hath it rest rather than the other.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:6 @ Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and see no good, do not all go to one place?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:7 @ All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his desires are not satisfied.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:8 @ For what advantage hath the wise man over the fool? What advantage hath the poor, who knoweth how to walk before the living?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:9 @ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity, and striving after wind.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:10 @ That which is was long ago called by name; and it was known that he is a man, and that he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:11 @ Seeing there are many things which increase vanity, what advantage hath man?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:6:12 @ For who knoweth what is good for man in life, in all the days of his vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:1 @ A good name is better than precious perfume, and the day of ones death than the day of his birth.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:2 @ It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to heart.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @ Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:4 @ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:5 @ It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:6 @ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool. This also is vanity.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:7 @ Surely the gain of oppression maketh a wise man foolish, and a gift corrupteth the understanding.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:8 @ Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. Better is the patient in spirit than the proud in spirit.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:9 @ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @ Say not, "What is the cause that the former days were better than these?" For thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:11 @ Wisdom is as good as an estate? yea, it hath an advantage over it for them that see the sun.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:12 @ For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence. But knowledge hath the advantage. For wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:13 @ Consider the work of God! Who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:14 @ In the day of prosperity be joyful; but look for a day of adversity! for this also, as well as the other, hath God appointed, to the end that a man should not find out any thing which shall be after him.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ All this have I seen in my days of vanity. There are righteous men who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked men who live long in their wickedness.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:16 @ Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise! Why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:17 @ Be not overmuch wicked; neither be thou a fool! Why shouldst thou die before thy time?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:18 @ It is good that thou shouldst take hold of this; yea, also, from that withdraw not thy hand. For he that feareth God shall escape all those things.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:19 @ Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men who are in the city.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:20 @ Truly there is not a righteous man upon the earth who doeth good and sinneth not.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:21 @ Give no heed to all the words which are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee!

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:22 @ For many times thine own heart knoweth also that even thou thyself hast cursed others.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:23 @ All this have I tried by wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:24 @ That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:25 @ I applied my mind earnestly to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and intelligence, and to know wickedness and folly, yea, foolishness and madness.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:26 @ And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:27 @ Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, putting one thing to another to find knowledge.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:28 @ That which my soul hath hitherto sought, and I have not found, is this: a man among a thousand I have found, but a woman among a thousand have I not found.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:7:29 @ Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:1 @ Who is like the wise man, and who knoweth the explanation of a thing? A mans wisdom brighteneth his countenance, and the harshness of his face is changed.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:2 @ I counsel thee to keep the kings commandment, and that on account of the oath of God.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:3 @ Be not in haste to depart from his presence; persist not in an evil thing; for whatever pleaseth him, that he doeth.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ For the word of the king is powerful; and who can say to him, "What doest thou?"

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:5 @ He that keepeth the commandment shall experience no evil; and the heart of the wise man hath regard to time and judgment.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:6 @ For to every thing there is a time and judgment. For the misery of man is great upon him.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:7 @ For no one knoweth what shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:8 @ No man hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no man hath power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war; and wickedness shall not deliver those that are guilty of it.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:9 @ All this have I seen, and I have given heed to all things that are done under the sun. There is a time when man ruleth over man to his hurt.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:10 @ And so I saw the wicked buried, while the righteous came and went from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city. This also is vanity.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:11 @ Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore doth the heart of the sons of men become bold within them to do evil.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:12 @ But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and have his days prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:13 @ But it shall not be well with the wicked: he shall be like a shadow, and shall not prolong his days, because he feareth not before God.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ There is a vanity which taketh place upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked, and that there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said, "This also is vanity!"

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:15 @ Then I commended joy; because nothing is good for a man under the sun, except to eat and to drink and to be joyful; for it is this that abideth with him for his labor during the days of his life which God giveth him under the sun.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:16 @ When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business which is done upon the earth,that one seeth no sleep with his eyes by day or by night,

noyes@Ecclesiastes:8:17 @ then I saw the whole work of God, that a man cannot comprehend that which is done under the sun; how much soever he labor to search it out, yet shall he not comprehend it; yea, though a wise man resolve to know it, yet shall he not be able to comprehend it.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:1 @ For I gave my mind to all this, even to search out all this, that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God, and yet neither his love nor hatred doth any man know. All is before them.