Ecclesiastes:1-4
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:2 @ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! all [is] vanity.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What [is] the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun?
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:4 @ A generation passes away, and a generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:5 @ The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arose.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:6 @ The wind goes toward the south, and it turns around to the north; it whirls around continually; and the wind returns on its circuits.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:7 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:8 @ All things [are] full of labor; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:9 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:11 @ [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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:12 @ I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:13 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:14 @ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:15 @ What [is] crooked cannot be made straight; and [that] lacking cannot be numbered.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:16 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @ And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I know that this also [is] vexation of spirit.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:1:18 @ For in much wisdom [is] much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore consider and behold goodness; this also [is] vanity.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I said of laughter, [It is] madness; and of mirth, What does it do?
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @ I made my works great; I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @ I made gardens and orchards for myself, And I planted trees in them, of all fruit.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I made pools of water for myself, to water the forest shooting forth trees.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I bought slaves and slave women, and sons of the house were mine; also livestock, a herd and a great flock were mine, above all that were before me in Jerusalem.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I also gathered silver and gold to myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got men singers and women singers for myself, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and very many wives.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @ I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ 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?
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:13 @ Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walks in darkness; and I also knew that one event happens to all of them.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:16 @ 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!
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:18 @ Yes, I hated all my labor which I had done under the sun; that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:19 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:20 @ And I turned to cause my heart to despair over all the labor which I did under the sun.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @ For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:23 @ For all his days [are] sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This [is] also vanity.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @ Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:25 @ For who can eat, or who can enjoy, apart from me?
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:2:26 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:1 @ To every thing [there is] a season, and a time for every purpose under the heavens:
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:2 @ a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pull up what [is] planted;
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:3 @ a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:4 @ a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:5 @ a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:6 @ a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:7 @ a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:8 @ a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @ What profit does he have who works in that in which he labors?
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:10 @ I have seen the task which God has given to the sons of men to be humbled by it.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:11 @ He has made everything beautiful in His time; also He has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @ I know that [there is] no good in them, but to rejoice and to do good in his life.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:13 @ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it [is] the gift of God.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:14 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:15 @ That which has been is now; and that which [is] to be has already been; and God requires that which is past.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:16 @ And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness [was] there.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @ I said in my heart concerning the matter of sons of men, that God might reveal them, and that they might see that they themselves [are] beasts.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:20 @ All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust again.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:21 @ Who knows the spirit of man [that] goes upward, and the spirit of the beast [that] goes downward?
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ Therefore I have seen that [there is] nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:1 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:2 @ And I commended the dead who already have died, more than the living who [are] living now.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:3 @ Yea, better than both [is he] who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:4 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:5 @ The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:6 @ Better [is] a hand filled with rest than two fists [with] travail and vexation of spirit.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:7 @ And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:8 @ 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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:9 @ Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:10 @ For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him [who is] alone when he falls, for he does not have another to help him.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:11 @ Again, if two lie [together], then they have warmth; but how can one be warm [alone]?
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:12 @ And if one overthrows him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:13 @ A poor and a wise child [is] better than an old and foolish king, who will not be warned any more.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:14 @ For out of prison he comes to reign; although in his kingdom he was born poor.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:15 @ I saw all the living who walk under the sun, with the second child who shall stand up in his place.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ [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.
mkjv@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @ Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil.
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