Ecclesiastes 1:9; Ecclesiastes 1:11; Ecclesiastes 2:11; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:12; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Ecclesiastes 3:19; Ecclesiastes 3:22; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 4:10; Ecclesiastes 4:16; Ecclesiastes 5:4; Ecclesiastes 5:14; Ecclesiastes 6:2; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Ecclesiastes 8:7; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 8:15; Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ecclesiastes 9:6; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Ecclesiastes 10:11; Ecclesiastes 12:1; Ecclesiastes 12:12

Ecclesiastes 1:9

9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

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 2:11

11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die!

Ecclesiastes 2:24

24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,

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 3:19

19 Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath ; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

Ecclesiastes 4:1

1 Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

8 There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless— a miserable business!

Ecclesiastes 4:10

10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

16 There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:4

4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

14 or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

2 God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.

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 8:7

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

Ecclesiastes 8:8

8 As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

15 So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

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 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 9:6

6 Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

11 If a snake bites before it is charmed, the charmer receives no fee.

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 12:12

12 Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.