Ecclesiastes 1:17; Ecclesiastes 2:14; Ecclesiastes 2:19; Ecclesiastes 3:12; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Ecclesiastes 3:21; Ecclesiastes 4:13; Ecclesiastes 5:1; Ecclesiastes 6:5; Ecclesiastes 6:8; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Ecclesiastes 7:22; Ecclesiastes 7:25; Ecclesiastes 8:1; Ecclesiastes 8:5; Ecclesiastes 8:7; Ecclesiastes 8:12; Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 8:17; Ecclesiastes 9:1; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Ecclesiastes 9:12; Ecclesiastes 10:14; Ecclesiastes 10:15; Ecclesiastes 11:2; Ecclesiastes 11:5; Ecclesiastes 11:6; Ecclesiastes 11:9

Ecclesiastes 1:17

17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

14 The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

Ecclesiastes 4:13

13 Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

5 Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man—

Ecclesiastes 6:8

8 What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?

Ecclesiastes 6:10

10 Whatever exists has already been named, and what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with someone who is stronger.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

Ecclesiastes 7:22

22 for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

25 So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

1 Who is like the wise? Who knows the explanation of things? A person’s wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.

Ecclesiastes 8:5

5 Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

7 Since no one knows the future, who can tell someone else what is to come?

Ecclesiastes 8:12

12 Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—

Ecclesiastes 8:17

17 then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.

Ecclesiastes 9:1

1 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

11 I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

14 and fools multiply words. No one knows what is coming— who can tell someone else what will happen after them?

Ecclesiastes 10:15

15 The toil of fools wearies them; they do not know the way to town.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

2 Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

6 Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

9 You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.