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That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Verse ConceptsNothingThings UnderNothing NewUnder The SunSunEverything Happening For A ReasonSunshinefitness

There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

Verse ConceptsAnonymityUnknown FutureThe Pastremembrancepast

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunTragedyexploring

That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

Verse ConceptsCrookednessUncountableTwisted WaysStraightening

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Verse ConceptsStudying InsanityUseless Endeavour

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholDrinking WineUnder The SunBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeexploring

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men -- musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Verse ConceptsChoirsThe Vanity Of Human KnowledgeSingersSupplied With Money

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Verse ConceptsAchievementPhysical LabourdissatisfactionUseless EndeavourUnder The SunSuccess And Hard Work

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

Verse ConceptsStudying InsanityNature Of Kings

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Verse ConceptsLight And DarknessBenefits Of Wisdom

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness -- and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateSpiritual PerceptionDarkness Of Evilfate

Then I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateUseless EndeavourWise Man Or Foolfate

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Verse ConceptsWeariness Of LifeUseless EndeavourUnder The Sunfootball

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Verse ConceptsEating And DrinkingGood ActivityCaused By GodFinding LoveSuccess And Hard WorkBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeuncertaintyhardwork

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Verse ConceptsWealthBeing A BlessingEnjoyment, Lack OfBeing BlessedPromised JoyUseless EndeavourGod Judges The WickedPeople With KnowledgeGod Gives WisdomWisdomWisdom And GuidanceSaving Moneystriving

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

Verse ConceptsMen WorkingQuestioning Life

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulBeauty, In NatureAdaptabilityBeginning And EndBeing Found OutHeartbreakBeauty Of ThingsTime ManagementGod's Ways Beyond Human UnderstandingGod's TimingGods TimingBeing BeautifulWaiting For God's Timingeternity

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Verse ConceptsContentmentGood ActivityBeing ContentBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Life

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

Verse ConceptsAdding To GodSubtracting From God

That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.

Verse ConceptsNothing NewThe FutureEverything Happening For A ReasonThe Pastpastreproduction

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunInjusticeSunfairnesswickedness

I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

Verse ConceptsGod Testing PeopleEverything Happening For A ReasonTestshumanityordermyself

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateUniversality Of DeathVanityAdvantagesUseless EndeavourCondition Of The BodyAnimals Having A Soulnatural Lifenatural DeathEverything Happening For A ReasonPetsThe Environmentbreathinghumanityfatebreath

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Verse ConceptsCareersWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeaccomplishments

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who 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

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunBabies Sinful From Birth

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Verse ConceptsVanityUseless EndeavourMotivationSuccess And Hard WorkCompetitionaccomplishmentsaccomplishmenthardworkstriving

I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

Verse ConceptsUnder The Sun

Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

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

Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

Verse ConceptsGod DestroyingMistakesGod Angry With IndividualsErrorGuiltMaking MistakesSpeechjoking

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPhysical LabourLife And DeathTragedy

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Verse ConceptsDietsEating And DrinkingEating Drinking And RejoicingSunHaving A Good DayBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifefatehardwork

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourSuffering From ForeignersGod Gives WealthTragedyBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeWealth And ProsperityEnjoying LifeMoney Blessingscatspossessionsempowerment

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

Verse ConceptsAdvantagesPoor PeopleWise Man Or Fool

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

Verse ConceptsFate Of HumanityAfflictions As Blessings In DisguiseThinking ArightDeath Is UniversalDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of Loved OneCelebrationLoss Of A Loved Onegrievingfate

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

Verse ConceptsTwistingStraightening

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don't withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come forth from them all.

Verse ConceptsFear Of God, Results Of

for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

Verse ConceptsUngodly Cursing

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

Verse ConceptsThe Existence Of ThingsNot Finding

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingStudying Insanity

Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."

Verse ConceptsFall Of ManInventionsMan, Creation OfPerfection Of CreationMorality

All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Verse ConceptsLording ItUnder The SunHurt

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Verse ConceptsOne HundredLiving LongWork EthicEthics

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to 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

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Verse ConceptsLifestylesExperience, of lifeEating And DrinkingUnder The SunSunFunStaying Strong During Hard TimesSleeping PeacefullyBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeSunshineEnjoying Liferelaxing

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

Verse ConceptsAcquiring Wisdom

then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

Verse ConceptsBeing Found OutUnder The SunWisdomGod's PlanGod's WillSunThe MindGods PlanEverything Happening For A ReasonWorking For GodKnowing GodThe Beauty Of NatureGod Turning Bad Things Into GoodWorking For The LordChanging YourselfScriptureexploringworkingefforthardworkeverythingseekingmanwisetryingThe Complexity Of Nature

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandHateGodly ManEverything Happening For A Reasonaccomplishmentsaccomplishment

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableForgetting PeopleState Of The DeadThose Who Were IgnorantDeathConsciousness After DeathDeath ofLife After Death

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

Verse ConceptsNot HatingUnder The SunUnlovingNot Sharing

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

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

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Verse ConceptsBattlesCompetitionsBeing FairBrawnChanceLimitations Of StrengthSpeedFast RunnersGathering FoodEducationSunGod's TimingBattleGods TimingRaceGod's Timing And Planheroes

For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

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

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Verse ConceptsForgetting PeopleIndividuals Saving OthersThe Work Of The WiseSaving Moneyhealthcarerecognition

Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

Verse ConceptsLifestylesAspects Of People Made Known

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureToo Many Words

Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don't curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsCivic DutiesHonouring RulersDisclosuresDo Not TellThe Rich Lording ItUngodly CursingPrivate RoomsBirdsFunThoughtsAbusesecretscriticismrumorsriskgossiping

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

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

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Verse ConceptsDeath, Preparation ForDark DaysOvertaken By DarknessUseless EndeavourLiving LongBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Life

Rejoice, 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

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

Verse ConceptsA Word Fitly Spoken

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