Ecclesiastes 1:8; Ecclesiastes 1:11; Ecclesiastes 1:15; Ecclesiastes 4:3; Ecclesiastes 4:13; Ecclesiastes 5:10; Ecclesiastes 5:15; Ecclesiastes 6:5; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Ecclesiastes 7:17; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Ecclesiastes 7:21; Ecclesiastes 8:5; Ecclesiastes 8:17; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Ecclesiastes 9:15; Ecclesiastes 10:14; Ecclesiastes 12:1; Ecclesiastes 12:2; Ecclesiastes 12:6

Ecclesiastes 1:8

8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

11 No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

15 What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

3 But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

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 5:10

10 Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

15 Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

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

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 7:17

17 Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool— why die before your time?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.

Ecclesiastes 7:21

21 Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you—

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 8:17

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 9:11

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 9:15

15 Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.

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 12:1

1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—

Ecclesiastes 12:2

2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;

Ecclesiastes 12:6

6 Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, and the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, and the wheel broken at the well,