Ecclesiastes 2:4; Ecclesiastes 2:7; Ecclesiastes 4:14; Ecclesiastes 5:1; Ecclesiastes 7:2; Ecclesiastes 7:4; Ecclesiastes 10:18; Ecclesiastes 12:3; Ecclesiastes 12:5

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Ecclesiastes 2:4

4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.
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Ecclesiastes 2:7

7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me.
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Ecclesiastes 4:14

14 The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.
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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.
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Ecclesiastes 7:2

2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.
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Ecclesiastes 7:4

4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
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Ecclesiastes 10:18

18 Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks.
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Ecclesiastes 12:3

3 when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim;
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Ecclesiastes 12:5

5 when people are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.
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