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The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes.

Verse ConceptsMercy, HumanEvil Desiresnagging

"They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."

Verse ConceptsAlcoholInsensibilityAccepting BeatingsAbsence Of FeelingWake Up!AlcoholicsOvercomingHurtFeeling Losthurtingdrunkards

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

Verse ConceptsFutureFindingWisdom, Human ImportanceBenefits Of WisdomThe Futureexpectations


But to those [honorable judges] who rebuke the wicked, it will go well with them and they will find delight,
And a good blessing will come upon them.

Verse ConceptsBlessingReproving Peoplerebuking

As he who layeth hold of the ears of a dog, is a passer-by, who giveth vent to his wrath over a quarrel, not his!

Verse ConceptsdisagreementsBusybodiesMeddlingGentlenessMinding Your Own BusinessFamily ProblemsConflictFamily ConflictPets


The rich man [who is conceited and relies on his wealth instead of God] is wise in his own eyes,
But the poor man who has understanding [because he relies on God] is able to see through him.

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfRich, TheRiches, Dangers OfWisdom, Source Of HumanRiches, Can Lead ToWorldly WisdomFalse WisdomPoor PeopleSatisfied With RichesDiscernmentpotential

He who pampers his slave from childhood
Will in the end find him to be a son.

Verse ConceptsTreatment From YouthSoft TreatmentslaveryRaising Children

And I set my mind to know [practical] wisdom and to discern [the character of] madness and folly [in which men seem to find satisfaction]; I realized that this too is a futile grasping and chasing after the wind.

Verse ConceptsStudying InsanityUseless Endeavour

I thought to myself, "Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile." But I found that it also is futile.

Verse ConceptsVanitySoliloquyUseless EndeavourBeing Happy And Enjoying Lifejournaling

When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Verse ConceptsAchievementPhysical LabourdissatisfactionUseless EndeavourUnder The SunSuccess And Hard Work

There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and {find delight} in his toil. For I also realized that this [is] from the hand of God!

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

I concluded that it is worthwhile for people to find joy in their accomplishments, because that is their inheritance, since who can see what will exist after them?

Verse ConceptsCareersWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeaccomplishments

Behold, here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in all the labor in which he labors under the sun during the few days of his life which God gives him—for this is his [allotted] reward.

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

yet, as regardeth every man, to whom God hath given wealth and goods, and granted him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to find gladness in his toil, this, is, the gift of God.

Verse ConceptsGifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodEating Drinking And RejoicingGod Gives WealthRichesthe Gifts of GodBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeWealth And ProsperityEnjoying LifeMoney Blessingspossessionsempowermenthardwork

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Verse ConceptsSexual ChastityWomen Doing WrongMan TrappingGodly WomanBitternessBreaking Chainsnagging

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

Verse ConceptsBeing Found Out

Find joy in living with your wife whom you love every day of your pointless life that God gave you on earth, because this is your life assignment and your work to do on earth.

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

If the clouds be filled with a downpour, upon the earth, will they empty themselves, and, if a tree fall in the south or in the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there will it be found.

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

the doors at the street are shut
while the sound of the mill fades;
when one rises at the sound of a bird,
and all the daughters of song grow faint.

Verse ConceptsNatural DeafnessWakefulnessShutting DoorsGrinding FoodFaintnessBird SoundsSingersHabitual Getting Uprelaxation

The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

Verse ConceptsA Word Fitly Spoken

Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature Of

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, Shown ByFinding Love

The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Verse ConceptsPrivate RoomsSoulmates

A fount of gardens, a well of living waters, And flowings from Lebanon!

Verse ConceptsGardens

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Verse ConceptsGone AwayOthers Not AnsweringSeeking But Not Finding People

The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

Verse ConceptsPeople Stripping People

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

Verse ConceptsBeing In LoveFriendship And LovePassion

O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

Verse ConceptsSibling Lovebreasts

I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Being AttractiveSexual Desirebreasts

Come, I pray you, and let us settle the disputer Saith Yahweh, - Though your sins be found like scarlet, As snow, shall they be made white, Though they appear red like crimson, As wool, shall they become.

Verse ConceptsCrimsonForgiveness, DivineInvitationsMarketsOpinionsPurity, Moral And SpiritualSnowThoughtWhiteWoolLogicReasoningAfflictions, Consolation DuringColors, ScarletAdvice, Receiving God's AdviceWashing ClothesWhite HairReasoned ArgumentComing TogetherColorscars


For you will be ashamed [of the degradation] of the oaks in which you took [idolatrous] pleasure,
And you will be ashamed of the gardens [of passion] which you have chosen [for pagan worship].

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturaldisgraceShrinesAnimismOaksShame Of Idolatry

There is not one faint or feeble among them, no not a sluggish nor slippery person. There shall not one of them put off the girdle from his loins, nor loose the latchet of his shoe.

Verse ConceptsBeltsSleeplessnessNot StumblingOrderly Army

and say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAliancesFaint HeartednessTwo Other MenFear And Worrysmoking

Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

Verse ConceptsExile, in assyriaToolsAssyria, Facts OfThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaWeapons Of God

As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

Verse ConceptsGod Is Truthful

And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

Verse ConceptsNestsWingsWings Of BirdsBird Soundsrelentless

Shall the axe vaunt itself against him hewing with it? shall the saw magnify itself against him moving it up and down? as the rod moving up and down with those lifting it up; as the lifting up of the rod not wood.

Verse ConceptsAxesSelf ConfidenceToolsWoodInfidelity To GodSawsClubsDo Not Be ProudScoffers

So will he find fragrance, in the reverence of Yahweh, And not, by the sight of his eyes, will he judge, Nor by the hearing of his ears, will he decide;

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfLeaders, PoliticalSpirit Of ChristAppearancesChrist JudgingMaking DecisionsFearing Godrumors

And the cow, with the bear shall find pasture, Together, shall their young ones, lie down, - And, the lion, like the ox, shall eat straw;

Verse ConceptsCowsFeedingStrawBearsYoung AnimalDeliverance From LionsNoting What Animals Eatcats

I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, my boasting, arrogant ones.

Verse ConceptsSanctificationheroesventing

Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionLosing Courage

Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofSurvivors Destroyed

The firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety; but I'll kill your root by famine, and I'll execute your survivors.

Verse ConceptsPeace, Divine In OtRootsSafetyFamine Coming From GodThose Helping The PoorFeeding The Poor

And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and the afflicted of his people find refuge in it.

Verse ConceptsenvoyAnswering People

The fishers shall mourn, all such as cast angles in the water shall complain, and they that spread their nets in the water shall be faint hearted.

Verse ConceptsFishesLamentingNetsOccupationsFishermen

But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the Lord who commands armies has planned for Egypt.

Verse ConceptsPlansWise MenWhere Are People?

All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

Verse ConceptsIsrael Fleeing

Therefore hath he said, - No more, again, do thou exult, Thou violated virgin daughter of Zidon, - To Cyprus, arise and pass over, Even there, shall one find thee no rest.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersSleeplessnessVirginUnrest

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Verse ConceptsFew PeopleGod CursingGuiltThe Earth

Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

Verse ConceptsBriersThornsWeedsBurning Plants

In the past he said to them, "This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found." But they refused to listen.

Verse ConceptsRest, SpiritualRejection Of God's CallSelf WillGod Giving RestResttiredmovement


For the bed is too short to stretch out on,
And the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself [and likewise all their preparations are inadequate].

Verse ConceptsCovering The BodyNarrownessAccommodationsSmall ThingsBeds

It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

Verse ConceptsBad DreamsAppetite, PhysicalPhysical HungerBeing UnsatisfiedLike A Dream

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

Verse ConceptsPotterBreaking ContainersWeed


Blessed (happy, fortunate) are you who cast your seed upon all waters [when the river overflows its banks and irrigates the land],
You who allow the ox and the donkey to roam freely.

Verse ConceptsCowsPlanting SeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

This is the person who will live in a secure place; he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; he will have food and a constant supply of water.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodWaterFortsStones For ProtectionPeople Providing Food

The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

Verse ConceptsOwlsWolvesWild GoatProvision Of Nightcatsvampires

No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

Verse ConceptsThe Redeemed Of The Lordredeemed

Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

Verse ConceptsBackNegotiationTwo ThousandRiding Horses

'It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingRemnantRidicule, Objects OfSurvivors FavouredPray For UsWill God Pay Attention?

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

Then the ones belonging to the house of Judah who have escaped will gather, and those who are found will take root downward and bear fruit upward.

Verse ConceptsSurvivors FavouredPotential Of FruitGod's People Planted

And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

Verse ConceptsGoldHerbs And SpicesDisplayingArmoryFragranceThings RevealedTaking Mixed Metals