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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 6:8
8 What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
Ecclesiastes 6:9
9 Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 7:10
10 Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.
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 7:23
23 All this I tested by wisdom and I said, “I am determined to be wise”— but this was beyond me.
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 8:6
6 For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery.
Ecclesiastes 10:4
4 If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offenses to rest.
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 1:6
6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
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 2:23
23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 3:13
13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.
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 4:14
14 The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.
Ecclesiastes 7:18
18 It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.
Ecclesiastes 7:27
27 “Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
Ecclesiastes 8:11
11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.