King James Bible

Proverbs 31

Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher

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Chapter 1

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  The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.  

 

 


2


 

  Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.  

 

 


3


 

  What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?  

 

 


4


 

  [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.  

 

 


5


 

  The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.  

 

 


6


 

  The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.  

 

 


7


 

  All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.  

 

 


8


 

  All things [are] full of labour; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.  

 

 


9


 

  The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.  

 

 


10


 

  Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.  

 

 


11


 

  [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.  

 

 


12


 

  I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.  

 

 


13


 

  And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.  

 

 


14


 

  I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.  

 

 


15


 

  [That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.  

 

 


16


 

  I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all [they] that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.  

 

 


17


 

  And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.  

 

 


18


 

  For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.  

 

 


Ecclesiastes 2

 

 

 

 

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