noyes - Ecclesiastes:9-12

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.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:2 @ All as to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:3 @ This is an evil among all things which take place under the sun, that there is one event to all; therefore also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and afterward they go down to the dead.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @ For who is there that is excepted? With all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:5 @ For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, and there is no more to them any advantage, for their memory is forgotten.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:6 @ Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they a portion any more for ever in any thing which taketh place under the sun.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:7 @ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a cheerful heart; for long since hath God been pleased with thy works.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:8 @ Let thy garments be always white, and let not fragrant oil be wanting upon thy head.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:9 @ Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy vain life which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy vain days. For this is thy portion in life, and in thy labor with which thou weariest thyself under the sun.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:10 @ Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might! For there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the underworld, whither thou goest.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:11 @ I turned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of knowledge; but time and chance happen to them all.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:12 @ For man knoweth not his time. As fishes that are taken in a destructive net, and as birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in a time of distress, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:13 @ This also have I seen; even wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:14 @ There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:15 @ Now there was found within it a wise poor man; and he, by his wisdom, delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @ Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength;" and yet the poor mans wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:17 @ The quiet words of the wise are sooner heard than the shouting of a foolish ruler.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:9:18 @ Wisdom is better than weapons of war. But one offender destroyeth much good.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:1 @ Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer loathsome and corrupt; thus doth a little folly weigh down wisdom and honor.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:2 @ A wise mans mind is at his right hand; but a fools mind is at his left.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:3 @ Yea, even when the fool walketh in the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:4 @ If the anger of a ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place! for gentleness pacifieth great offences.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:5 @ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun; an error which proceedeth from a ruler.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:6 @ Folly is set in many high stations, and the noble sit in a low place.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:7 @ I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants on foot.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:8 @ He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh down a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:9 @ Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith, and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:10 @ If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put forth more strength; but an advantage for giving success hath wisdom.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:11 @ If a serpent bite before he is charmed, then there is no advantage to the charmer.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:12 @ The words of a wise mans mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool are his destruction.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:13 @ The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:14 @ A fool also multiplieth words, though no man knoweth what shall be; and who can tell him what shall be after him?

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:15 @ The labor of the foolish man wearieth him, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:16 @ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes feast in the morning!

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:17 @ Happy thou, O land, when thy king is a noble, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:18 @ By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and by the slackness of the hands the house leaketh.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:19 @ A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry; but money answereth all things.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:10:20 @ Curse not the king; no, not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber! for a bird of the air shall carry the voice; and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:11:1 @ Cast thy bread upon the waters; for after many days thou shalt find it.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:11:2 @ Give a portion to seven, yea, to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:11:3 @ When the clouds are full of rain, they empty upon the earth; and when a tree falleth to the south or the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:11:4 @ He that watcheth the wind will not sow, and he that gazeth upon the clouds will not reap.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:11:5 @ As thou knowest not the way of the wind, nor how the bones are formed in the womb of her that is with child, so thou canst not know the work of God, who doeth all things.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:11:6 @ In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand! For thou knowest not whether this shall prosper, or that, or whether both of them shall be alike good.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:11:7 @ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:11:8 @ Yea, though a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him think of the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:11:9 @ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes! but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:11:10 @ Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy body! for childhood and youth are vanity.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:1 @ Remember, also, thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou shalt say, "I have no pleasure in them;"

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:2 @ before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars become dark, and the clouds return after the rain;

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:3 @ at the time when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows are darkened;

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:4 @ when the doors are shut in the streets, while the sound of the mill is low; when they rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music are brought low;

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:5 @ when also they are afraid of that which is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the locust is a burden, and the caperberry is powerless; since man goeth to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:6 @ before the silver cord be snapped asunder, and the golden bowl be crushed, or the bucket broken at the fountain, or the wheel shattered at the well,

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:7 @ and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:8 @ Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity!

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:9 @ Moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he considered, and sought out, and set in order, many proverbs.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:10 @ The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and to write correctly words of truth.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:11 @ The words of the wise are as goads; yea, as nails driven in are the words of members of assemblies, given by one shepherd.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:12 @ And, moreover, by these, my son, be warned! To the multiplying of books there is no end, and much study wearieth the flesh.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:13 @ Let us hear the end of the whole discourse! Fear God and keep his commandments! For this is the duty of every man.

noyes@Ecclesiastes:12:14 @ For God will bring every work into the judgment which there is upon every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.