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The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to its place where it arose.

Verse ConceptsThe SunOthers Going DownThings Going UpRising

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from where the rivers come, there they return again.

Verse ConceptsGeologyVapourClimates, TypesIncompletenessRiversGoing Through the MotionsThe OceanThe Sea

All things are full of weariness; man cannot express it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Verse ConceptsDiscontentCuriosityBeing UnsatisfiedEvil EyesThe Faculty Of Hearing

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Verse ConceptsAnonymityUnknown FutureThe Pastremembrancepast

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this severe burden has God given to the sons of man to be afflicted with.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunTragedyexploring

I got myself male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle more than all that were in Jerusalem before me:

Verse ConceptsOwning LivestockGroups Of Slaves

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

Verse ConceptsGreat Individuals

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one fate happens to them all.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateSpiritual PerceptionDarkness Of Evilfate

And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourUnder The SunWise Man Or Fool

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Verse ConceptsInsomnia, Causes OfUnrestUseless Endeavour

I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, that God might reveal them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Verse ConceptsGod Testing PeopleEverything Happening For A ReasonTestshumanityordermyself

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateCreatures Returning To Dustdust

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfComfortless LivesWeariness Of LifeOppressorsNo ComfortUnder The Sunoppressionoverworking

Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Verse ConceptsWeariness Of LifeDesire For DeathDyingLoss Of A Loved One

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Verse ConceptsFormalityGod's DwellingThe Work Of FoolsCare Of FeetSacrificeFoolsGoing To ChurchListening To GodfootstepsbehaviorevangelisingGuarding Yourself

Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.

Verse ConceptsMan's Conduct Towards GodCurbing SpeechDo Not Be RashMaking DecisionsDecision MakingThe Presence Of Godlimitationsimpulsivenessevangelising

Permit not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

Verse ConceptsGod DestroyingMistakesGod Angry With IndividualsErrorGuiltMaking MistakesSpeechjoking

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also many vanities: but you fear God.

Verse ConceptsBad DreamsDaydreamingMan's Conduct Towards GodMisleading DreamsPeople Being SilentFear God!

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for the high official is watched by a higher one; and there are yet higher ones over them.

Verse ConceptsOppressorsAuthorityNot Helping The PoorInjusticeoppressionsurprises

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: so what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?

Verse ConceptsGrowth In WealthFinancesFamily ProblemsWealth And ProsperitySaving Money

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Verse ConceptsHard LaborWakefulnessMore Than EnoughHard WorkWorryingSleeping Peacefullyworkinghardworkworries

But those riches are lost by a bad venture: when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Verse ConceptsBad LuckBeing Lost

Say you not, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

Verse ConceptsHaving A Good DayThe Pastpastwise

Be not overly wicked, neither be foolish: why should you die before your time?

Verse ConceptsEuthanasiaEarly DeathFools Becoming WiseDeathAssisted Suicide

It is good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this withhold not your hand: for he that fears God shall come forth of them all.

Verse ConceptsFear Of God, Results Of

Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men who are in the city.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleBenefits Of WisdomKings And Wisdomlimitations

For oftentimes also your own heart knows that you yourself likewise have cursed others.

Verse ConceptsUngodly Cursing

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are fetters: whosoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Verse ConceptsSexual ChastityWomen Doing WrongMan TrappingGodly WomanBitternessBreaking Chainsnagging

I counsel you to keep the king's commandment, and that for the sake of your oath to God.

Verse ConceptsCivic DutiesCitizenshipSwearing OathsObeying People

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What are you doing?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?AuthorityPowerThe Power Of Words

There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

Verse ConceptsUniversality Of DeathEuthanasiaCoping With DeathHow Death Is InevitableEvil And FreedomPrinciples Of WarSalvation By Other ThingsDeathstruggleWarGod Being In Controlpractice

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the holy place, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

Verse ConceptsOblivionVanityUseless EndeavourBurying places

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, who fear before him:

Verse ConceptsOne HundredLiving LongWork EthicEthics

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.

Verse ConceptsNo Fear Of GodTime PassingFearing God

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just men, unto whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

Verse ConceptsVanityUseless EndeavourProsperity Of The WickedThe Righteous PerishingTaking Care Of The Earth

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandHateGodly ManEverything Happening For A Reasonaccomplishmentsaccomplishment

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPeople Acting MadlyTragedyfate

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you perform under the sun.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunLife StrugglesSunFinding LoveGetting Through Hard TimesBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying LifespousehardworkThe Love Of Women

For man also knows not his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

Verse ConceptsDisastersThe Right TimeThe Insecurity Of The WickedWithheld KnowledgeSudden DestructionSudden EventsUnreadinessNot Knowing The FutureGod TrappingBad DaysHard TimesBirdsGod's TimingTragedyGods TimingFishGetting Through Hard Timessurprises

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Verse ConceptsLimitations Of StrengthBenefits Of WisdomPoor PeopleFamily StrengthSaving Moneystrengh

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools.

Verse ConceptsNo ShoutingFaintnessFools

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroys much good.

Verse ConceptsBenefits Of WisdomWeapons Of The BelieverFamily Conflict

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, leave not your post; for yielding pacifies great offences.

Verse ConceptsBeing CalmPeaceablenessStaying Strong And Not Giving UpAnger And Forgiveness

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

Verse ConceptsFools

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Verse ConceptsBad LeadershipAlcoholBeing A LeaderDigestionRight Time For PeopleFamily Strength

Curse not the king, no not even in your thought; and curse not the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsCivic DutiesHonouring RulersDisclosuresDo Not TellThe Rich Lording ItUngodly CursingPrivate RoomsBirdsFunThoughtsAbusesecretscriticismrumorsriskgossiping

Cast your bread upon the waters: for you shall find it after many days.

Verse ConceptsShips For TradingBreadinvesting

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural UseCompassesNorth And SouthThings FallingWeather In The Last Dayscloudsinvesting

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening withhold not your hand: for you know not which shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both alike shall be good.

Verse ConceptsBusynessVegetationNot Knowing The FutureAt Morning And EveningFrom Morning Till EveningCareer SuccessReaping What You SowPlanting SeedsSeedsSuccess And Hard WorkSowing Seedssowing

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Verse ConceptsCheerfulnessFreshness Of YouthImpulsesWork From YouthGod SuingAdolescent DepressionJudgmentsDaysRejoicing When Someone Is SavedFunJudgement DayGod Turning Bad Things Into GoodBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeJudgementEnjoying Lifemanhoodconsequencesteenagercheerleading

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural UseLooking Through WindowsOvertaken By DarknessDarkening Sun Moon And StarsSunshineThe Moon

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows grow dim,

Verse ConceptsFeeblenessDimness Of VisionDentistryTeethLooking Through WindowsTremblingGrinding FoodEyes HarmedFew ThingsGrowingWeather In The Last Days

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersFeeblenessMournersAlmond TreesAcrophobiaSlownessWhite HairMourning DeathCondition Of The SpiritFear Will Comeenergymarketing

Before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

Verse ConceptsBreaking ContainersWater ContainersCordsWheelsThings Like GoldThings Like SilverNervousnessBreaking Chainslungs

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails firmly fixed by the masters of assemblies, which are given by one shepherd.

Verse ConceptsNailsSharp Tools