Ecclesiastes:5:8-6:12
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?
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